Are you sure that the term enum return the terms in correct order? For all 
types of RangeQueries, the term enumeration has to be correctly sorted as 
specified in the docs, if this is not correct, the enumeration may be 
incomplete. It’s a good thing to turn on assertions for the lucene package, as 
the internal term enum asserts some term order things.

 

At least to be sure, have you compared the results with the same test ran 
against pure-Lucene? Maybe there is something wrong in the tests, which we 
cannot see? Alternatively, maybe you try to use Lucene’s 
TestNumericRangeQuery64 and rewrite to Lucandra, as this one passes for sure.

 

One other thing: Lucene 4.0 with flexible indexing will change to binary-only 
terms (BytesRef class), will you be able to handle that?

 

Uwe

 

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From: Uwe Schindler [mailto:u...@thetaphi.de] 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:36 AM
To: 't...@spidertracks.co.nz'
Subject: RE: Help with Numeric Range

 

Are you sure that the term enum return the terms in correct order? For all 
types of RangeQueries, the term enumeration has to be correctly sorted as 
specified in the docs, if this is not correct, the enumeration may be 
incomplete.

 

One other thing: Lucene 4.0 with flexible indexing will change to binary-only 
terms (BytesRef class), will you be able to handle that?

 

Uwe

 

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Uwe Schindler

H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen

http://www.thetaphi.de <http://www.thetaphi.de/> 

eMail: u...@thetaphi.de

 

From: Todd Nine [mailto:t...@spidertracks.co.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:00 AM
To: Uwe Schindler
Cc: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Help with Numeric Range

 

Hi Uwe,

  Thank you for your help, it is greatly appreciated.  Unfortunately, my tests 
all fail except for RangeInclusive.  I've changed the step to be 6 as per your 
recommendation.  I had it at max to eliminate step precision as the cause of 
the test failure.  Essentially, all keys in Cassandra are UTF-8 Keys.  In the 
Lucandra, the keys are constructed in the following way.

1. Get the token stream for the field.  In this case it's a NumericTokenStream 
with (numeric,valSize=64,precisionStep=6)
2. For all tokens in the stream, create a UTF8 String in the following format 
<fieldname>\uffff<token value>
3. Set the term frequency to 1

This gives us a list of tokens, prefixed with the field name and the delimiter. 
 then we do this

for each term from above create a key of the format 
<indexname>\uffff<fieldname>\uffff<token value> and write it to TermInfo column 
Family

After debugging the implementation of the LucandraTermEnum, it is correctly 
returning values that should match my numeric range query.  However, I never 
get the results in the TopDocs result set after they're handed back to the 
numeric range query object.  Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks,
Todd

        

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 08:53 +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: 

 
Hi Todd,
 
I am not sure if I understand your problem correctly. I am not familiar with 
Lucandra/Cassandra at all, but if Lucandra implements the IndexWriter and 
IndexReader according to the documentation, numeric queries should work. A 
NumericField internally creates a TokenStream and "analyzes" the number to 
several Tokens, which are somehow "half binary" (they are terms containing of 
characters in the full 0..127 range for optimal UTF8 compression with 3.x 
versions of Lucene). The exact encoding can be looked at in the NumericUtils 
class + javadocs.
 
About your testcase: The test looks good, so does it fail? If yes, where is the 
problem? You can also look into Lucene's test TestNumericRangeQuery64 for more 
examples. Or modify its @BeforeClass to instead build a Lucandra index. 
 
The test has one thing, that is not intended to be done like that:
numeric = new NumericField("long", Integer.MAX_VALUE, Store.YES, true);
 
You are using MAX_VALUE as precision step, this would slowdown all queries to 
the speed of old-style TermRangeQueries. It is always better to stick with the 
default of 4, which creates 64 bits / 4 precStep = 16 terms per value. 
Alternatively for longs, 6 is a good precision step (see NumericRangeQuery 
documentation). MAX_VALUE is only intended for fields that do not do numeric 
ranges but e.g. sort only. precisionStep is a performance tuning parameter, it 
has nothing to do with better/worse precision on terms or different query 
results. If you are using NumericRangeQuery with this large precStep, you are 
not using the numeric features at all, so your test should not behave different 
from a conventional TermRangeQuery with padded terms.
 
Uwe
 
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Uwe Schindler
H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen
http://www.thetaphi.de
eMail: u...@thetaphi.de
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Nine [mailto:t...@spidertracks.co.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:53 AM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Help with Numeric Range
> 
> Hi all,
>   I'm new to Lucene, as well as Cassandra.  I'm working on the Lucandra
> project to modify it to add some extra functionality.  It hasn't been fully
> testing with range queries, so I've created some tests and contributed them.
> You can view my source here.
> 
> http://github.com/tnine/Lucandra/blob/master/test/lucandra/NumericRang
> eTests.java
> 
> First, is this a sensible test?  I'm specifically testing the case of longs 
> where I
> need millisecond precision on my searches.
> 
> 
> Second, I see that Numeric Fields are built via terms.  I think the issue 
> lies in
> the encoding of these terms into bytes for the Cassandra keys.  Can anyone
> point me to some documentation on numeric queries and terms, and how
> they are encoded at the byte level based on the precision?
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd
 

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