A byte can be used to represent 2^8 different values. Apache Solr supports each element b as a byte (-128 to 127).
A double in Java needs 8 bytes, so you won't be able to encode a double in a single byte lossless. Cheers -------------------------- *Alessandro Benedetti* Director @ Sease Ltd. *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* *Apache Solr PMC Member* e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied Consulting | Training | Open Source Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github <https://github.com/seaseltd> On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 21:36, Yue Yu <yue...@bloomreach.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to index and search with vectors of double? According to > https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/9_5/query-guide/dense-vector-search.html > vectorEncoding only supports "FLOAT32" or "BYTE", has anyone tried to use > "BYTE" to encode double value? > > Thanks, > > Yue >
