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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1644) Enable MultiTermQuery's constant
score mode to also use BooleanQuery under the hood
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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1644:
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I'm inclined to think we push to 3.0?
> Enable MultiTermQuery's constant score mode to also use BooleanQuery under the hood
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>
> Key: LUCENE-1644
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1644
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.9
>
>
> When MultiTermQuery is used (via one of its subclasses, eg
> WildcardQuery, PrefixQuery, FuzzyQuery, etc.), you can ask it to use
> "constant score mode", which pre-builds a filter and then wraps that
> filter as a ConstantScoreQuery.
> If you don't set that, it instead builds a [potentially massive]
> BooleanQuery with one SHOULD clause per term.
> There are some limitations of this approach:
> * The scores returned by the BooleanQuery are often quite
> meaningless to the app, so, one should be able to use a
> BooleanQuery yet get constant scores back. (Though I vaguely
> remember at least one example someone raised where the scores were
> useful...).
> * The resulting BooleanQuery can easily have too many clauses,
> throwing an extremely confusing exception to newish users.
> * It'd be better to have the freedom to pick "build filter up front"
> vs "build massive BooleanQuery", when constant scoring is enabled,
> because they have different performance tradeoffs.
> * In constant score mode, an OpenBitSet is always used, yet for
> sparse bit sets this does not give good performance.
> I think we could address these issues by giving BooleanQuery a
> constant score mode, then empower MultiTermQuery (when in constant
> score mode) to pick & choose whether to use BooleanQuery vs up-front
> filter, and finally empower MultiTermQuery to pick the best (sparse vs
> dense) bit set impl.
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