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Andrzej Bialecki commented on LUCENE-3837:
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bq. I guess that your progress is better than no progress at all.
That's my perspective too, and it's reflected in the title of this issue... I
remember your description and in fact my proposal is somewhat similar. It does
not use PQs, but indeed it merges updates on the fly, at the cost of keeping a
static map of primary->secondary ids and random seeking in the secondary index
to retrieve matching data. Please check the description above. And then once a
segment merge is executed the overlay data will be integrated into the main
data, because the merge process will pull in this mix of new and old without
being aware of it - it will be hidden by Codec's read formats. Codec
abstractions are great for this kind of manipulations.
bq. One comment – when the updates are collapsed, the may not just simply
'replace' what exists before them.
Right, old data will be returned if not overlaid by new data, meaning that e.g.
old stored field values will be returned for all other fields except the
updated field, and for that field the data from the overlay will be returned.
> A modest proposal for updateable fields
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> Key: LUCENE-3837
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3837
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core/index
> Affects Versions: 4.0
> Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
>
> I'd like to propose a simple design for implementing updateable fields in
> Lucene. This design has some limitations, so I'm not claiming it will be
> appropriate for every use case, and it's obvious it has some performance
> consequences, but at least it's a start...
> This proposal uses a concept of "overlays" or "stacked updates", where the
> original data is not removed but instead it's overlaid with the new data. I
> propose to reuse as much of the existing APIs as possible, and represent
> updates as an IndexReader. Updates to documents in a specific segment would
> be collected in an "overlay" index specific to that segment, i.e. there would
> be as many overlay indexes as there are segments in the primary index.
> A field update would be represented as a new document in the overlay index .
> The document would consist of just the updated fields, plus a field that
> records the id in the primary segment of the document affected by the update.
> These updates would be processed as usual via secondary IndexWriter-s, as
> many as there are primary segments, so the same analysis chains would be
> used, the same field types, etc.
> On opening a segment with updates the SegmentReader (see also LUCENE-3836)
> would check for the presence of the "overlay" index, and if so it would open
> it first (as an AtomicReader? or it would open individual codec format
> readers? perhaps it should load the whole thing into memory?), and it would
> construct an in-memory map between the primary's docId-s and the overlay's
> docId-s. And finally it would wrap the original format readers with "overlay
> readers", initialized also with the id map.
> Now, when consumers of the 4D API would ask for specific data, the "overlay
> readers" would first re-map the primary's docId to the overlay's docId, and
> check whether overlay data exists for that docId and this type of data (e.g.
> postings, stored fields, vectors) and return this data instead of the
> original. Otherwise they would return the original data.
> One obvious performance issue with this appraoch is that the sequential
> access to primary data would translate into random access to the overlay
> data. This could be solved by sorting the overlay index so that at least the
> overlay ids increase monotonically as primary ids do.
> Updates to the primary index would be handled as usual, i.e. segment merges,
> since the segments with updates would pretend to have no overlays) would just
> work as usual, only the overlay index would have to be deleted once the
> primary segment is deleted after merge.
> Updates to the existing documents that already had some fields updated would
> be again handled as usual, only underneath they would open an IndexWriter on
> the overlay index for a specific segment.
> That's the broad idea. Feel free to pipe in - I started some coding at the
> codec level but got stuck using the approach in LUCENE-3836. The approach
> that uses a modified SegmentReader seems more promising.
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