[jira] [Created] (OAK-6269) Support non chunk storage in OakDirectory

["Chetan Mehrotra (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chetan Mehrotra created OAK-6269:
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             Summary: Support non chunk storage in OakDirectory
                 Key: OAK-6269
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-6269
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: lucene
            Reporter: Chetan Mehrotra
             Fix For: 1.8


Logging this issue based on offline discussion with [~catholicon].

Currently OakDirectory stores files in chunk of 1 MB each. So a 1 GB file would be stored in 1000+ chunks of 1 MB.

This design was done to support direct usage of OakDirectory with Lucene as Lucene makes use of random io. Chunked storage allows it to seek to random position quickly. If the files are stored as Blobs then its only possible to access via streaming which would be slow

As most setup now use copy-on-read and copy-on-write support and rely on local copy of index we can have an implementation which stores the file as single blob.

*Pros*
* Quite a bit of reduction in number of small blobs stored in BlobStore. Which should reduce the GC time specially for S3 
* Reduced overhead of storing a single file in repository. Instead of array of 1k blobids we would be stored a single blobid
* Potential improvement in IO cost as file can be read in one connection and uploaded in one.

*Cons*
It would not be possible to use OakDirectory directly (or would be very slow) and we would always need to do local copy.



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