An Anti-Merging Multi-Directory Indexing Framework
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Key: LUCENE-2425
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2425
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: contrib/*, Index
Affects Versions: 3.0.1
Reporter: Karthick Sankarachary
By design, a Lucene index tends to merge documents that span multiple segments
into fewer segments, in order to optimize its directory structure, which in
turn leads to better search performance. In particular, it relies on a merge
policy to specify the set of merge operations that should be performed when the
index is optimized.
Often times, there's a need to do the exact opposite, which is to "split" the
documents. This calls for a mechanism that facilitates sub-division of
documents based on a certain (ideally, user-defined) algorithm. By way of
example, one may wish to sub-divide (or partition) documents based on
parameters such as time, space, real-timeliness, and so on. Herein, we describe
an indexing framework that builds on the Lucene index writer and reader, to
address use cases wherein documents need to diverge rather than converge.
In brief, it associates zero or more sub-directories with the index's
directory, which serve to complement it in some manner. The sub-directories
(a.k.a. splits) are managed by a split policy, which is notified of all changes
made to the index directory (a.k.a. super-directory), thus allowing it to
modify its sub-directories as it sees fit. To make the index reader and writer
"observable", we extend Lucene's reader and writer with the goal of providing
hooks into every method that could potentially change the index. This allows
for propagation of such changes to the split policy, which essentially acts as
a listener on the index.
We refer to each sub-directory (or split) and the super-directory as a
sub-index of the containing index (a.k.a. the split index). Note that the
sub-directory may not necessarily be co-located with the super-directory.
Furthermore, the split policy in turn relies on one or more split rules to
determine when to add or remove sub-directories. This allows for a clear
separation of the event that triggers a split from the management of those
splits.
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