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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1606:
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Okay - still not an issue I don't think - leading wildcards are already an
issue - 5% is worth the other speedups I think - though you've taken care of
that anyway - so sounds like gold to me. I didn't expect this to solve leading
wildcard issues, so no loss to me.
bq. No, what I am saying is that you still have to index the terms in reversed
order for the leading * or .* case, except then this reversing buys you faster
wildcard AND regex queries
bummer :) Does it make sense to implement here though? Isn't the
ReverseStringFilter enough if a user wants to go this route? Solr's support for
this is fairly good, but I don't think it needs to be as 'built in' for Lucene?
> Automaton Query/Filter (scalable regex)
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: contrib/*
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Robert Muir
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.1
>
> Attachments: automaton.patch, automatonMultiQuery.patch,
> automatonmultiqueryfuzzy.patch, automatonMultiQuerySmart.patch,
> automatonWithWildCard.patch, automatonWithWildCard2.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch
>
>
> Attached is a patch for an AutomatonQuery/Filter (name can change if its not
> suitable).
> Whereas the out-of-box contrib RegexQuery is nice, I have some very large
> indexes (100M+ unique tokens) where queries are quite slow, 2 minutes, etc.
> Additionally all of the existing RegexQuery implementations in Lucene are
> really slow if there is no constant prefix. This implementation does not
> depend upon constant prefix, and runs the same query in 640ms.
> Some use cases I envision:
> 1. lexicography/etc on large text corpora
> 2. looking for things such as urls where the prefix is not constant (http://
> or ftp://)
> The Filter uses the BRICS package (http://www.brics.dk/automaton/) to convert
> regular expressions into a DFA. Then, the filter "enumerates" terms in a
> special way, by using the underlying state machine. Here is my short
> description from the comments:
> The algorithm here is pretty basic. Enumerate terms but instead of a
> binary accept/reject do:
>
> 1. Look at the portion that is OK (did not enter a reject state in the
> DFA)
> 2. Generate the next possible String and seek to that.
> the Query simply wraps the filter with ConstantScoreQuery.
> I did not include the automaton.jar inside the patch but it can be downloaded
> from http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ and is BSD-licensed.
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