Re: [Solr Wiki] Update of "SimpleFacetParameters" by YonikSeeley

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: + This parameter indicates what type of algorithm/method to use when faceting a field.
: + 
: + The {{{enum}}} method was the default (and only) method prior to Solr1.4.  It enumerates all terms in a field, calculating the set intersection of documents that match the term with documents that match the query.

...that's not strictly true though, there was a FieldCache based approach 
that was used for non-boolean single token fields ... has that now been 
completley eliminated? ... my naive reading of hte match is that it's 
still there, and still triggered in some cases -- should we make it an 
explicit option for this new facet.method param?


-Hoss

Re: [Solr Wiki] Update of "SimpleFacetParameters" by YonikSeeley

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: I've updated the wording - hopefully it's a little clearer now.

Yeah, but SolrFacetingOverview should probably be updated as well.

: counting up terms.  This did exist for single valued fields, and now
: also exists for multi-valued fields.  The implementation is different
: of course, but I don't think we need more control over that.  If
: anything the single-valued implementation could be made a little more
: efficient w.r.t memory use.

Hmmm... i think i understand: facet.method determines either that enum is 
used or an univerted field cache of some form (either the lucene 
FieldCache or the new solr UnInvertedField) is used -- and the specifics 
are determined by whether the field is multi-tokend?

If we do "optimize" the single-value case to use UnInvertedField instead 
we should definitely add an option for that, since some people may also be 
sorting on the field (and having an UnInvertedField in addition to a 
FieldCache could be considered a waste of ram)

-Hoss

Re: [Solr Wiki] Update of "SimpleFacetParameters" by YonikSeeley

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Chris Hostetter
<ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
>
> : + This parameter indicates what type of algorithm/method to use when faceting a field.
> : +
> : + The {{{enum}}} method was the default (and only) method prior to Solr1.4.  It enumerates all terms in a field, calculating the set intersection of documents that match the term with documents that match the query.
>
> ...that's not strictly true though, there was a FieldCache based approach
> that was used for non-boolean single token fields ... has that now been
> completley eliminated? ... my naive reading of hte match is that it's
> still there, and still triggered in some cases -- should we make it an
> explicit option for this new facet.method param?

I've updated the wording - hopefully it's a little clearer now.

facet.method=enum means iterate over terms and calculate set intersections.
facet.method=fc means iterate over documents matching the query,
counting up terms.  This did exist for single valued fields, and now
also exists for multi-valued fields.  The implementation is different
of course, but I don't think we need more control over that.  If
anything the single-valued implementation could be made a little more
efficient w.r.t memory use.

-Yonik