Add serialization support for RAMDirectory ------------------------------------------
Key: LUCENE-3516 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3516 Project: Lucene - Java Issue Type: Improvement Components: core/store Affects Versions: 3.4 Reporter: John Wang Attachments: RAMDirectorySerializer.java We are building Lucene indexes via Hadoop, and using byte[] for of RAMDirectory as intermediate storage. (we are using Hadoop's indexing contrib package) Currently Java serialization is used, and seemed wasteful and not portable across languages. Since RAMDirectory essentially is a collection of byte[], writing a serializer seemed easy. Attached please find a utility class that does such. This includes a light performance comparison test comparing the java serialization: Results: (input, number of files and avg file size, output, size percentage: our ser/java ser, time, serialization: percentage, our ser/java ser, deserialization: percentage, our ser/java ser test 1:(3, 1k) size: 66.93% ser time: 1.89% deser time: 4.48% test 2: (100,100) size: 95.16% ser time: 4.01% deser time: 13.36% test 3: (3,50k) size: 98.42% ser time: 3.09% deser time: 8.10% test 4: (1,1k) size: 41.70% ser time: 1.85% dser time: 3.85% The implementation is very elementary, yet still much better than java ser. Esp on the time (avg 50x faster) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org