Ignacio Vera created LUCENE-8868:
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Summary: New storing strategy for BKD tree leaves with low
cardinality
Key: LUCENE-8868
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8868
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Ignacio Vera
Currently if a leaf on the BKD tree contains only few values, then the leaf is
treated the same way as it all values are different. It many cases it can be
much more efficient to store the distinct values with the cardinality.
The strategy is the following:
1. When writing a leaf block the cardinality is computed.
2. Perform some naive calculation to compute if it is better to store the leaf
as a low cardinality leaf. The storage cost are calculated as follows:
* low cardinality: leafCardinality * (packedBytesLength - prefixLenSum + 2)
where two is the estimated size of storing the cardinality. This is an
overestimation as in some cases you will only need one byte to store the
cardinality.
* High cardinality: count * (packedBytesLength - prefixLenSum). We are not
taking into account the runlen compression.
3. If the tree has low cardinality then we set the compressed dim to -2. Note
that -1 is when all values are equal.
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