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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-3003:
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bq. I'd guess that pulsing should be 'good enough' most of the time? It seems
like there'll be some overlap in terms of the gains from pulsing vis-à-vis
DocValues?
I think Pulsing codec probably doesn't help much here?
Ie Pulsing is good for terms that have only 1 or 2 docs.
But for this case (faceting), usually, you have relatively few terms
and many docs per term?
> Move UnInvertedField into Lucene core
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> Key: LUCENE-3003
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3003
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.2, 4.0
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> Attachments: LUCENE-3003.patch
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> Solr's UnInvertedField lets you quickly lookup all terms ords for a
> given doc/field.
> Like, FieldCache, it inverts the index to produce this, and creates a
> RAM-resident data structure holding the bits; but, unlike FieldCache,
> it can handle multiple values per doc, and, it does not hold the term
> bytes in RAM. Rather, it holds only term ords, and then uses
> TermsEnum to resolve ord -> term.
> This is great eg for faceting, where you want to use int ords for all
> of your counting, and then only at the end you need to resolve the
> "top N" ords to their text.
> I think this is a useful core functionality, and we should move most
> of it into Lucene's core. It's a good complement to FieldCache. For
> this first baby step, I just move it into core and refactor Solr's
> usage of it.
> After this, as separate issues, I think there are some things we could
> explore/improve:
> * The first-pass that allocates lots of tiny byte[] looks like it
> could be inefficient. Maybe we could use the byte slices from the
> indexer for this...
> * We can improve the RAM efficiency of the TermIndex: if the codec
> supports ords, and we are operating on one segment, we should just
> use it. If not, we can use a more RAM-efficient data structure,
> eg an FST mapping to the ord.
> * We may be able to improve on the main byte[] representation by
> using packed ints instead of delta-vInt?
> * Eventually we should fold this ability into docvalues, ie we'd
> write the byte[] image at indexing time, and then loading would be
> fast, instead of uninverting
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