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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-6863:
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+1 for sparse support! Sparse fields are a fact of life for a lot of users.
Sometimes they can encode the info into a common field, but it's often not
straight-forward to do so.
> Store sparse doc values more efficiently
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> Key: LUCENE-6863
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6863
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Assignee: Adrien Grand
> Attachments: LUCENE-6863.patch
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> For both NUMERIC fields and ordinals of SORTED fields, we store data in a
> dense way. As a consequence, if you have only 1000 documents out of 1B that
> have a value, and 8 bits are required to store those 1000 numbers, we will
> not require 1KB of storage, but 1GB.
> I suspect this mostly happens in abuse cases, but still it's a pity that we
> explode storage requirements. We could try to detect sparsity and compress
> accordingly.
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