Hi All, While working on a new Query type, I was inclined to think of a couple of use cases where the documents being scored need not be all of the data set, but a sample of them. This can be useful for very large datasets, where a query is only interested in getting the "feel" of the data, and other queries where the data is being aggregated over time, so a wide enough sample of the data is good enough for the user at the tradeoff of improved performance. Faceting already has sampling mechanisms, so there are ideas to be borrowed from that part.
I have some ideas on introducing a new query type and associated semantics to allow this functionality to be present from ground up. Specifically, a query type which wraps another query and "feeds" offsets to the inner query, along with a limit of collection of hits. I can go in more detail, but wanted to get some thoughts and feedback before delving deeper. Atri --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
