[jira] [Created] (LUCENE-5159) compressed diskdv sorted/sortedset termdictionaries

["Robert Muir (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Robert Muir created LUCENE-5159:
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             Summary: compressed diskdv sorted/sortedset termdictionaries
                 Key: LUCENE-5159
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5159
             Project: Lucene - Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core/index
            Reporter: Robert Muir


Sorted/SortedSet give you ordinal(s) per document, but them separately have a "term dictionary" of all the values.

You can do a few operations on these:
* ord -> term lookup (e.g. retrieving facet labels)
* term -> ord lookup (reverse lookup: e.g. fieldcacherangefilter)
* get a term enumerator (e.g. merging, ordinalmap construction)

The current implementation for diskdv was the simplest thing that can possibly work: under the hood it just makes a binary DV for these (treating ordinals as document ids). When the terms are fixed length, you can address a term directly with multiplication. When they are variable length though, we have to store a packed ints structure in RAM.

This variable length case is overkill and chews up a lot of RAM if you have many unique values. It also chews up a lot of disk since all the values are just concatenated (no sharing).



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