Hi Erick! Nice to hear from you again! From time to time my interest
in these "Lucene things" returns and I do some experiments :p

Just to add to this conversation, I found an interesting link to
Mike's blog about memory resident indexes (using another virtual
machine) 
http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/07/lucene-index-in-ram-with-azuls-zing-jvm.html
and also (which is not exactly what I asked but seems related) there
is a Google Summer of Code project to build a memory residen term
resident: 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/billybob/42001

Thanks
Emmanuel


2013/7/1 Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>:
> Hey Emma! It's been a while....
>
> Building on what Steven said, here's Uwe's blog on
> MMapDirectory and Lucene:
> http://blog.thetaphi.de/2012/07/use-lucenes-mmapdirectory-on-64bit.html
>
> I've always considered RAMDirectory for rather restricted
> use-cases. I.e. if I know without doubt that the index
> is both relatively static and bounded. The other use I've
> seen is to use it to index single documents on-the-fly for
> some reason (say complex processing of a single result)
> then throw it out afterwards.
>
> How are things going?
>
> Erick
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Steven Schlansker <ste...@likeness.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Emmanuel Espina <espinaemman...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm building a distributed index (mostly as a reasearch project for
>> > school) and I'm evaluating indexing the entire collection in memory
>> > (like google, facebook and others have done years ago). The obvious
>> > reason for this is performance considering that the replication will
>> > give me a reasonably good durability of the data (despite being in
>> > volatile memory).
>> >
>> > What is the current status of Lucene for this kind of indexes?
>> > RAMDirectory in it's documentation has a scary warning that says that
>> > "is not intended to work with huge indexes", and that sounds more like
>> > it is an implementation for testing rather than something for
>> > production.
>> >
>> > Of course there is no real context for this question, because it is a
>> > reasearch topic. Testing it's limits would be the closest to a context
>> > I have :p
>>
>> You could consider MMapDirectory, which will end up putting the active
>> portions
>> of the index in memory (via the filesystem buffer cache).
>>
>> The benefit is that you don't completely destroy the Java heap
>> (RAMDirectory causes immense
>> GC pressure if you are not careful) and you don't have to commit all of
>> your ram to index usage all the time.
>>
>> The downside is that if your working set exceeds the amount of RAM
>> available for buffer cache, you will get silent performance degradation as
>> you fall back to disk reads for the missing blocks.
>>
>> Maybe this is OK for your use case, maybe not.
>>
>>
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