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Adrien Grand commented on LUCENE-5748:
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+1 I like it!
> SORTED_NUMERIC dv type
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> Key: LUCENE-5748
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5748
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Attachments: LUCENE-5748.patch
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> Currently for Strings you have SORTED and SORTED_SET, capable of single and
> multiple values per document respectively.
> For multi-numerics, there are only a few choices:
> * encode with NumericUtils into byte[]'s and store with SORTED_SET.
> * encode yourself per-document into BINARY.
> Both of these techniques have problems:
> SORTED_SET isn't bad if you just want to do basic sorting (e.g. min/max) or
> faceting counts: most of the bloat in the "terms dict" is compressed away,
> and it optimizes the case where the data is actually single-valued, but it
> falls apart performance-wise if you want to do more complex stuff like solr's
> analytics component or elasticsearch's aggregations: the ordinals just get in
> your way and cause additional work, deref'ing each to a byte[] and then
> decoding that back to a number. Worst of all, any mathematical calculations
> are off because it discards frequency (deduplicates).
> using your own custom encoding in BINARY removes the unnecessary ordinal
> dereferencing, but you trade off bad compression and access: you have no real
> choice but to do something like vInt within each byte[] for the doc, which
> means even basic sorting (e.g. max) is slow as its not constant time. There
> is no chance for the codec to optimize things like dates with GCD compression
> or optimize the single-valued case because its just an opaque byte[].
> So I think it would be good to explore a simple long[] type that solves these
> problems.
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