[jira] [Updated] (LUCENE-2905) Sep codec writes insane amounts of skip data

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

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Robert Muir updated LUCENE-2905:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: Bulk Postings branch)
                   5.0

> Sep codec writes insane amounts of skip data
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2905
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2905
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>             Fix For: 5.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2905_intblock.patch, LUCENE-2905_interleaved.patch, LUCENE-2905_simple64.patch, LUCENE-2905_skipIntervalMin.patch
>
>
> Currently, even if we use better compression algorithms via Fixed or Variable Intblock
> encodings, we have problems with both performance and index size versus StandardCodec.
> Consider the following numbers:
> {noformat}
> standard:
> frq: 1,862,174,204 bytes
> prx: 1,146,898,936 bytes
> tib: 541,128,354 bytes
> complete index: 4,321,032,720 bytes
> bulkvint:
> doc: 1,297,215,588 bytes
> frq: 725,060,776 bytes
> pos: 1,163,335,609 bytes
> tib: 729,019,637 bytes
> complete index: 5,180,088,695 bytes
> simple64:
> doc: 1,260,869,240 bytes
> frq: 234,491,576 bytes
> pos: 1,055,024,224 bytes
> skp: 473,293,042 bytes
> tib: 725,928,817 bytes
> complete index: 4,520,488,986 bytes
> {noformat}
> I think there are several reasons for this:
> * Splitting into separate files (e.g. postings into .doc + .freq). 
> * Having to store both a relative delta to the block start, and an offset into the block.
> * In a lot of cases various numbers involved are larger than they should be: e.g. they are file pointer deltas, but blocksize is fixed...
> Here are some ideas (some are probably stupid) of things we could do to try to fix this:
> Is Sep really necessary? Instead should we make an alternative to Sep, Interleaved? that interleaves doc and freq blocks (doc,freq,doc,freq) into one file? the concrete impl could implement skipBlock() for when they only want docdeltas: e.g. for Simple64 blocks on disk are fixed size so it could just skip N bytes. Fixed Int Block codecs like PFOR and BulkVint just read their single numBytes header they already have today, and skip numBytes.
> Isn't our skipInterval too low? Most of our codecs are using block sizes such as 64 or 128, so a skipInterval of 16 seems a little overkill.
> Shouldn't skipInterval not even be a final constant in SegmentWriteState, but instead completely private to the codec?
> For block codecs, doesn't it make sense for them to only support skipping to the start of a block? Then, their skip pointers dont need to be a combination of delta + upto, because upto is always zero. What would we have to modify in the bulkpostings api for jump() to work with this?
> For block codecs, shouldn't skipInterval then be some sort of divisor, based on block size (maybe by default its 1, meaning we can skip to the start of a every block)
> For codecs like Simple64 that encode fixed length frames, shouldnt we use 'blockid' instead of file pointer so that we get smaller numbers? e.g. simple64 can do blockid * 8 to get to the file pointer.
> Going along with the blockid concept, couldnt pointers in the terms dict be blockid deltas from the index term, instead of fp deltas? This would be smaller numbers and we could compress this metadata better.



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