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Posted to java-user@lucene.apache.org by Kumaran Ramasubramanian <ku...@gmail.com> on 2016/08/06 06:01:08 UTC

In lucene faceting, advantages of taxonomy index over ​SortedSetDocValuesFacetField

Hi All,


As per documentation of SortedSetDocValuesFacetCounts,


Compute facets counts from previously indexed
> ​​
> SortedSetDocValuesFacetField, without require a separate taxonomy index.
> Faceting is a bit slower (~25%), and there is added cost on every
> IndexReader open to create a new SortedSetDocValuesReaderState.
> Furthermore, this
> ​​
> does not support hierarchical facets; only flat (dimension + label)
> facets, but it uses quite a bit less RAM to do so.
>


what is meant by "
​
does not support hierarchical facets; only flat" here? what functionality
we will miss because of this?


other than faster faceting...Is there any benefit of using taxonomy index
over docvalues field for faceting?



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Kumaran R