Re: BitSet implementation and large index

2005-02-14 Thread jian chen
Hi, In database systems implementation, there is a type of index called bit map indexing. The bitset implementation could borrow idea from the database engine implementation. You could squeeze all the 0's together and write how many of those 0's, that might be very memory saving. There are

Re: Passage Search

2005-01-27 Thread jian chen
True, the span query accomplishes large part of the passage search. However, correct me if I am wrong, it seems to me that the span query only matches all words you specified. there is a limitation there compared to passage search or cover density search, which matches some of the user input