Hello Lokendra, You could updates frequently. Anyway i think it is one time job.
My advice would be do insertion and updates in batch. 1. Parse your file and read 1000 lines 2. Do some aggregation and insert / update with lucene. Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Lokendra Singh <lsingh....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I am seeking for some guidelines to directly convert an already existing > index to Lucene index. > The index available to me is of a set of <value1,value2> pairs. Where each > pair is : > < word , fileName > > i.e a word as a 'value1', and the 'value2' being the fileName containing > that word. > > A word might appear in several fileNames as well a same file can contain > multiple copies of a word. For eg, following index is possible: > < "my" , "file1" > > < "you" , "file2" > > < "my", "file2" > > < "my", "file1"> > > My actual problem is that the index available to me is very large in size, > hence I am bit reluctant to create 'Document' object for each file because > for that I will have to read through all the pairs first and store them in > memory. Or I will have to 'update' the 'Document' object of a particular > file while iterating through the Pairs of my index, this 'update', again, > is > a costly operation. > > Please correct me if my understanding of Lucene is wrong or other > alternative ways. > > Regards > Lokendra >
