Your whole explanation seems vague. Searching in sleep mode seems appropriate for your use case, provided that you have the proper domain model, which means an article that is somehow related to comments, for example, using the OneToMany association. If there is no connection between the article and the comment, how do you still know which article the Comment belongs to?
The presence of such a domain model will be decided by your use case - the ability to search in articles and comments, but return the list of articles.
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- Hardy