Mahmoud, Lucene's documents' fields can be, when stored, compressed on disk. I think that answers your question.
paul On 17 oct. 2010, at 09:16, Mahmoud Abdelkader wrote: > Hello, > > We're currently evaluating utilizing Lucene to index a large English corpus > and we were are optimizing for space. We're basically concerned that the > size of the postings lists will become extremely large. Does Lucene provide > some kind of compression for the generated posting lists within the index? > If not, is there a way to force Lucene do this? > > Thanks for the help in advance, > Mahmoud --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
