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Toke Eskildsen commented on LUCENE-8374:
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Thank you for the suggestions, [~jpountz]. I am not at home in this part of the
code base, so guidance is much appreciated. I will look into how postings work.
Putting the block-index in the separate meta file sounds like the right
solution. What about also putting the rank structure in there too? That way the
existing data file would keep its format and if a setup chooses not to use the
lookup structures (time will show if that makes sense for any setups), its
inactive existence will not affect disk caching of the data file. One downside
I see is that it would require all the rank structures to be kept in-memory
instead of being temporarily loaded as part of accessing a DENSE block.
On the other hand, offloading the support structures to the meta file ties very
well into a two-stage approach where the first stage is query-time improvement
for version 7 and the second is a codec-change for version 8. I must admit to
having a selfish reason for trying to get version 7 to perform better: Our
index takes 50 CPU-years / 3 realtime months to regenerate, so we would like
not to do so.
What is the contract for the slicer? Is seeking strictly forward, so that a
binary search for {{SPARSE}} can only be done by loading the full block
temporarily onto the heap? It would be nice to also have an improvement for
{{SPARSE}}, if possible.
> Reduce reads for sparse DocValues
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-8374
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8374
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/codecs
> Affects Versions: master (8.0), 7.3.1
> Reporter: Toke Eskildsen
> Priority: Major
>
> The {{Lucene70DocValuesProducer}} has the internal classes
> {{SparseNumericDocValues}} and {{BaseSortedSetDocValues}} (sparse code path),
> which again uses {{IndexedDISI}} to handle the docID -> value-ordinal lookup.
> The value-ordinal is the index of the docID assuming an abstract tightly
> packed monotonically increasing list of docIDs: If the docIDs with
> corresponding values are {{[0, 4, 1432]}}, their value-ordinals will be {{[0,
> 1, 2]}}.
> h2. Outer blocks
> The lookup structure of {{IndexedDISI}} consists of blocks of 2^16 values
> (65536), where each block can be either {{ALL}}, {{DENSE}} (2^12 to 2^16
> values) or {{SPARSE}} (< 2^12 values ~= 6%). Consequently blocks vary quite a
> lot in size and ordinal resolving strategy.
> When a sparse Numeric DocValue is needed, the code first locates the block
> containing the wanted docID flag. It does so by iterating blocks one-by-one
> until it reaches the needed one, where each iteration requires a lookup in
> the underlying {{IndexSlice}}. For a common memory mapped index, this
> translates to either a cached request or a read operation. If a segment has
> 6M documents, worst-case is 91 lookups. In our web archive, our segments has
> ~300M values: A worst-case of 4577 lookups!
> One obvious solution is to use a lookup-table for blocks: A long[]-array with
> an entry for each block. For 6M documents, that is < 1KB and would allow for
> direct jumping (a single lookup) in all instances. Unfortunately this
> lookup-table cannot be generated upfront when the writing of values is purely
> streaming. It can be appended to the end of the stream before it is closed,
> but without knowing the position of the lookup-table the reader cannot seek
> to it.
> One strategy for creating such a lookup-table would be to generate it during
> reads and cache it for next lookup. This does not fit directly into how
> {{IndexedDISI}} currently works (it is created anew for each invocation), but
> could probably be added with a little work. An advantage to this is that this
> does not change the underlying format and thus could be used with existing
> indexes.
> h2. The lookup structure inside each block
> If {{ALL}} of the 2^16 values are defined, the structure is empty and the
> ordinal is simply the requested docID with some modulo and multiply math.
> Nothing to improve there.
> If the block is {{DENSE}} (2^12 to 2^16 values are defined), a bitmap is used
> and the number of set bits up to the wanted index (the docID modulo the block
> origo) are counted. That bitmap is a long[1024], meaning that worst case is
> to lookup and count all set bits for 1024 longs!
> One known solution to this is to use a [rank
> structure|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure]]. I
> [implemented
> it|[https://github.com/tokee/lucene-solr/blob/solr5894/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/sparse/count/plane/RankCache.java]]
> for a related project and with that (), the rank-overhead for a {{DENSE}}
> block would be long[32] and would ensure a maximum of 9 lookups. It is not
> trivial to build the rank-structure and caching it (assuming all blocks are
> dense) for 6M documents would require 22 KB (3.17% overhead). It would be far
> better to generate the rank-structure at index time and store it immediately
> before the bitset (this is possible with streaming as each block is fully
> resolved before flushing), but of course that would require a change to the
> codec.
> If {{SPARSE}} (< 2^12 values ~= 6%) are defined, the docIDs are simply in the
> form of a list. As a comment in the code suggests, a binary search through
> these would be faster, although that would mean seeking backwards. If that is
> not acceptable, I don't have any immediate idea for avoiding the full
> iteration.
> I propose implementing query-time caching of both block-jumps and inner-block
> lookups for {{DENSE}} (using rank) as first improvement and an index-time
> {{DENSE}}-rank structure for future improvement. As query-time caching is
> likely to be too costly for rapidly-changing indexes, it should probably be
> an opt-in in solrconfig.xml.
> h2. Some real-world observations
> This analysis was triggered by massive (10x) slowdown problems with both
> simple querying and large exports from our webarchive index after upgrading
> from Solr 4.10 to 7.3.1. The query-matching itself takes ½-2 seconds, but
> returning the top-10 documents takes 5-20 seconds (~50 non-stored DocValues
> fields), up from ½-2 seconds in total from Solr 4.10 (more of a mix of stored
> vs. DocValues, so might not be directly comparable).
> Measuring with VisualVM points to {{NIOFSIndexInput.readInternal}} as *the*
> hotspot. We ran some tests with simple queries on a single 307,171,504
> document segment with different single-value DocValued fields in the fl and
> got
>
> ||Field||Type||Docs with value||Docs w/ val %||Speed in docs/sec||
> |url|String|307,171,504|100%|12,500|
> |content_type_ext|String|224,375,378|73%|360|
> |author|String|1,506,365|0.5%|1,100|
> |crawl_date|DatePoint|307,171,498|~100%|90|
> |content_text_length|IntPoint|285,800,212|93%|410|
> |content_length|IntPoint|307,016,816|99.9%|100|
> |crawl_year|IntPoint|307,171,498|~100%|14,500|
> |last_modified|DatePoint|6,835,065|2.2%|570|
> |source_file_offset|LongPoint|307,171,504|100%|28,000|
> Note how both url and source_file_offset are very fast and also has a value
> for _all_ documents. Contrary to this, content_type_ext is very slow and
> crawl_date is extremely slow and as they both have _nearly_ all documents, I
> presume they are using {{IndexedDISI#DENSE}}. last_modified is also quite
> slow and presumably uses {{IndexedDISI#SPARSE}}.
> The only mystery is crawl_year which is also present in _nearly_ all
> documents, but is very fast. I have no explanation for that one yet.
> I hope to take a stab at this around August 2018, but no promises.
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