Re: Recommended number of fields in one lucene index

2017-02-15 Thread Kumaran Ramasubramanian
Hi Adrien Grand, Thanks for the response. a binary blob that > stores all the data so that you can perform updates. Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean to have StoredField as mentioned below to store all other fields which are needed only for updates? is there any way to use updatedocument

Re: Recommended number of fields in one lucene index

2017-02-15 Thread Adrien Grand
I think it is hard to come up with a general rule, but there is certainly a per-field overhead. There are some things that we need to store per field per segment in memory, so if you multiply the number of fields you have, you could run out of memory. In most cases I have seen where the index had s

Recommended number of fields in one lucene index

2017-02-15 Thread Kumaran Ramasubramanian
Hi All, Elasticsearch allows 1000 fields by default. In lucene, What are the indexing and searching performance impacts of having 10 fields vs 3000 fields in a lucene index? In my case, while indexing, i index and store all fields and so i can provide update on one field where we use to take out