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Subject: Re: benefits of float vs. string
Please explain a range query?
tia :-)
Dennis Gearon
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> Subject: Re: benefits of float vs. string
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 1:01 PM
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM,
> Nagelberg, Kallin
>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea about the performance
> benefits of searching across flo
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nagelberg, Kallin
wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea about the performance benefits of searching across
> floats compared to strings? I have one multi-valued field that contains about
> 3000 distinct IDs across 5 million documents. I am going to be a lot of
> qu
Floats are Trie types and are stored in a compressed format. They will
search faster. They will also sort with much less space.
One thing to point out is that doing bitwise comparison on floats is
to live in a state of sin. Your string representations must parse
exactly right.
On Wed, Apr 28, 201
