Lucene trades on (32-bit) ints internally, so I expect you're just seeing a projection of that limitation.
On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:40 AM, David G. Boney wrote: > I was reviewing the Lucandra schema presented on the below page at Datastax: > > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/data_model/lucandra > > In the TermInfo Super Column Family, docID is the key for a supercolumn. Does > this imply that the maximum number of documents that can be index for a term > with Lucandra is two billion, the maximum number of columns? > > ------------- > Sincerely, > David G. Boney > dbon...@semanticartifacts.com > http://www.semanticartifacts.com