My final settings are:
1. 1.5 gig RAM to the jvm out of 2GB available for my desktop
2. 100GB disk space.
3. Index creation and searching tuning factors:
a. mergeFactor = 10
b. maxFieldLength = 10
c. maxMergeDocs = 5000000
d. full optimize at end of index creation
e. readChunkSize = 1000000
f. TermInfosIndexDivisor = 10
g. NO sharding. Single Machine.
But Pablo, my document is a single field document with the the field length
being 2-5 words. So, u can probably reduce it by a factor of 100 directly if u
want to compare with regular docs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Mendes [mailto:pablomen...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:22 PM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
Shelly,
Do you mind sharing with the list the final settings you used for your best
results?
Cheers,
Pablo
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:49 PM, anshum.gu...@naukri.com
<ansh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Shelly,
> If you want to get more info on lucene, I'd recommend you get a copy of
> lucene in action 2nd Ed. It'll help you get a hang of a lot of things! :)
>
> --
> Anshum
> http://blog.anshumgupta.net
>
> Sent from BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shelly_Singh <shelly_si...@infosys.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:11:11
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org<java-user@lucene.apache.org>
> Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for the excellent support n guidance on my very first day on this
> mailing list...
> At end of day, I have very optimistic results. 100bln search in less than
> 1ms and the index creation time is not huge either ( close to 15 minutes).
>
> I am now hitting the 1bln mark with roughly the same settings. But, I want
> to understand Norms and TermFilters.
>
> Can someone explain, why or why not should one use each of these and what
> tradeoffs does it have.
>
> Regards,
> Shelly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danil ŢORIN [mailto:torin...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:52 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
>
> That won't work...if you'll have something like "A Basic Crazy
> Document E-something F-something G-something....you get the point" it
> will go to all shards so the whole point of shards will be
> compromised...you'll have 26 billion documents index ;)
>
> Looks like the only way is to search all shards.
> Depending on available hardware (1 Azul...50 EC2), expected
> traffic(1qps...1000qps), expected query time(10 msec ... 3 sec),
> redundancy (it's a large dataset, I don't think you want to loose it),
> and so on...you'll have to decide how many partitions do you want.
>
> It may work with 8-10, it may need 50-64. (I usually use 2^n as it's
> easier to split each shard in 2 when index grows too much)
>
> On such large datasets it's a lot of tuning, custom code, and no
> one-size-fits-all solution.
> Lucene is just a tool (a fine one) but you need to use it wisely to
> archive great results.
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 15:55, Shelly_Singh <shelly_si...@infosys.com>
> wrote:
> > Hmm..I get the point. But, in my application, the document is basically a
> descriptive name of a particular thing. The user will search by name (or
> part of name) and I need to pull out all info pointed to by that name. This
> info is externalized in a db.
> >
> > One option I can think of is-
> > I can shard based on starting alphabet of any name. So, "Alan Mathur of
> New Delhi" may go to shard "A". But since the name will have 'n' tokens, and
> the user may type any one token, this will not work. I can further tweak
> this such that I index the same document into multiple indices (one for each
> token). So, the same document may be indexed into Shard"A", "M", "N" and
> "D".
> > I am not able to think of another option.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Danil ŢORIN [mailto:torin...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:11 PM
> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
> >
> > I'd second that.
> >
> > It doesn't have to be date for sharding. Maybe every query has some
> > specific field, like UserId or something, so you can redirect to
> > specific shard instead of hitting all 10 indices.
> >
> > You have to have some kind of narrowing: searching 1bn documents with
> > queries that may hit all documents is useless.
> > An user won't look on more than let say 100 results (if presented
> > properly..maybe 1000)
> >
> > Those fields that narrow the result set are good candidates for sharding
> keys.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 15:32, Dan OConnor <docon...@acquiremedia.com>
> wrote:
> >> Shelly:
> >>
> >> You wouldn't necessarily have to use a multisearcher. A suggested
> alternative is:
> >>
> >> - shard into 10 indices. If you need the concept of a date range search,
> I would assign the documents to the shard by date, otherwise random
> assignment is fine.
> >> - have a pool of IndexSearchers for each index
> >> - when a search comes in, allocate a Searcher from each index to the
> search.
> >> - perform the search in parallel across all indices.
> >> - merge the results in your own code using an efficient merging
> algorithm.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Shelly_Singh [mailto:shelly_si...@infosys.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:20 AM
> >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: RE: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
> >>
> >> No sort. I will need relevance based on TF. If I shard, I will have to
> search in al indices.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: anshum.gu...@naukri.com [mailto:ansh...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:54 PM
> >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
> >>
> >> Would like to know, are you using a particular type of sort? Do you need
> to sort on relevance? Can you shard and restrict your search to a limited
> set of indexes functionally?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Anshum
> >> http://blog.anshumgupta.net
> >>
> >> Sent from BlackBerry(r)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Shelly_Singh <shelly_si...@infosys.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:31:38
> >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org<java-user@lucene.apache.org>
> >> Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: RE: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
> >>
> >> Hi Anshum,
> >>
> >> I am already running with the 'setCompoundFile' option off.
> >> And thanks for pointing out mergeFactor. I had tried a higher
> mergeFactor couple of days ago, but got an OOM, so I discarded it. Later I
> figured that OOM was because maxMergeDocs was unlimited and I was using
> MMap. U r rigt, I should try a higher mergeFactor.
> >>
> >> With regards to the multithreaded approach, I was considering creating
> 10 different threads each indexing 100mln docs coupled with a Multisearcher
> to which I will feed these 10 indices. Do you think this will improve
> performance.
> >>
> >> And just FYI, I have latest reading for 1 bln docs. Indexing time is 2
> hrs and search time is 15 secs.. I can live with indexing time but the
> search time is highly unacceptable.
> >>
> >> Help again.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Anshum [mailto:ansh...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:55 PM
> >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Scaling Lucene to 1bln docs
> >>
> >> Hi Shelly,
> >> That seems like a reasonable data set size. I'd suggest you increase
> your
> >> mergeFactor as a mergeFactor of 10 says, you are only buffering 10 docs
> in
> >> memory before writing it to a file (and incurring I/O). You could
> actually
> >> flush by RAM usage instead of a Doc count. Turn off using the Compound
> file
> >> structure for indexing as it generally takes more time creating a cfs
> index.
> >>
> >> Plus the time would not grow linearly as the larger the size of segments
> >> get, the more time it'd take to add more docs and merge those together
> >> intermittently.
> >> You may also use a multithreaded approach in case reading the source
> takes
> >> time in your case, though, the indexwriter would have to be shared among
> all
> >> threads.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Anshum Gupta
> >> http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Shelly_Singh <
> shelly_si...@infosys.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am developing an application which uses Lucene for indexing and
> searching
> >>> 1 bln documents. (the document size is very small though. Each document
> has
> >>> a single field of 5-10 words; so I believe that my data size is within
> the
> >>> tested limits).
> >>>
> >>> I am using the following configuration:
> >>> 1. 1.5 gig RAM to the jvm
> >>> 2. 100GB disk space.
> >>> 3. Index creation tuning factors:
> >>> a. mergeFactor = 10
> >>> b. maxFieldLength = 10
> >>> c. maxMergeDocs = 5000000 (if I try with a larger value, I get an
> >>> out-of-memory)
> >>>
> >>> With these settings, I am able to create an index of 100 million docs
> (10
> >>> pow 8) in 15 mins consuming a disk space of 2.5gb. Which is quite
> >>> satisfactory for me, but nevertheless, I want to know what else can be
> done
> >>> to tune it further. Please help.
> >>> Also, with these settings, can I expect the time and size to grow
> linearly
> >>> for 1bln (10 pow 9) documents?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks and Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Shelly Singh
> >>> Center For KNowledge Driven Information Systems, Infosys
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