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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-2810:
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Grant, I undestand what you are trying todo I just question if what you are 
proposing is something that really belongs into the core of if it should be 
done in a pluggable codec. If you can do it in a dir impl well then just go 
ahead and put it under misc. I don't know what should keep you from doing it. 
Yet, I think that seems much more like something for a codec and I think that 
support is needed desperately. If that is in place - we would not discuss that 
for long really....

simon

> Stored Fields Compression
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2810
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2810
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Store
>            Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
>            Assignee: Grant Ingersoll
>
> In some cases (logs, HTML pages w/ boilerplate, etc.), the stored fields for 
> documents contain a lot of redundant information and end up wasting a lot of 
> space across a large collection of documents.  For instance, simply 
> compressing a typical log file often results in > 75% compression rates.  We 
> should explore mechanisms for applying compression across all the documents 
> for a field (or fields) while still maintaining relatively fast lookup (that 
> being said, in most logging applications, fast retrieval of a given event is 
> not always critical.)  For instance, perhaps it is possible to have a part of 
> storage that contains the set of unique values for all the fields and the 
> document field value simply contains a reference (could be as small as a few 
> bits depending on the number of uniq. items) to that value instead of having 
> a full copy.  Extending this, perhaps we can leverage some existing 
> compression capabilities in Java to provide this as well.  
> It may make sense to implement this as a Directory, but it might also make 
> sense as a Codec, if and when we have support for changing storage Codecs.

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