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Eric Pugh commented on SOLR-17447:
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if your number one requirement is a latency (which makes sense for your use
case), shouldn't we just really make sure *timeAllowed* works? I'm guessing
that you are aiming for a very low latency, maybe that is 50ms? So the key is
to make sure that everything returns super quickly.
I *think* you are suggesting that you need to control how long the search on
each shard takes, and that *timeAllowed* doesn't do that, so you are thinking
that you only required *maxHits* number of docs per shard so that then you
respond, do the aggregation, and then get back to the user within a time.
Would it be better to just make sure the shard returns in a certain time (and
not worry about how many hits are matched?). I am thinking maybe more of a
*timeAllowedByShard* type parameter that is used by the shard to make the
decision when to return? I worry that a *maxHits* approach might take longer
time than you want to accumulate, and that your number one goal is latency, not
hits..
> Add support for maxHits
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>
> Key: SOLR-17447
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-17447
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: SearchComponents - other
> Reporter: Siju Varghese
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently there are 3 mechanisms to control # of hits for a query
> * Use of the _timeAllowed_ query parameter - Though this does not directly
> control the number of hits, it has a similar effect with the collector
> terminating after the specified time budget has exceeded. The primary
> objective of this switch is to control runaway queries.
> * Use of {{{}segmentTerminateEarly{}}}{\{ __ }}parameter - This parameter is
> only applicable for sorted segments where the sort criteria requested matches
> the sort criteria used in the SortingMergePolicy
> * Use of cpuAllowed parameter to put upper bound on cpu time for a query.
>
> I would like to propose a new _maxHits_ parameter. This parameter early
> terminates the query once it has gone past the provided number of hits per
> shard.
> For us the motivation for such a parameter is the following:
> Our search is extremely latency sensitive and the query set is a mix of very
> high frequency tokens where we favor fast recall and typical search queries
> where we favor precision at low latency. The former can be thought of as a
> search as you type use case and we want to ensure that we return the results
> quickly and just go over enough documents we plan to control via the maxHits
> parameter. We can't use a sorted index for our use case because the sort
> criteria is a ranking function which is based off document features and the
> user input.
> With the maxHits parameter, it is quite likely that the results returned
> might not be the most relevant ones, however that is acceptable for us.
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