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Erick Erickson commented on SOLR-8220:
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Given that stored values are compressed in 16k blocks and to return a single 
field from the stored data requires decompressing 16K, how much effect do 
LazyDocuments really have any more? I don't know, just askin'

Since docValues avoids decompressing 16k per doc, disk seeks and the like I 
strongly suspect that it is vastly more efficient than getting the stored 
values. That's how Streaming Aggregation can return on 200k-400k docs/second.

All that said, I suspect that there are negligible savings (or perhaps even 
costs) in mixing the two, i.e. if _any_ field to be returned is not DV, you 
might as well return all the fields from the stored data.

Testing would tell though.

> Read field from docValues for non stored fields
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-8220
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8220
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Keith Laban
>         Attachments: SOLR-8220-ishan.patch, SOLR-8220-ishan.patch, 
> SOLR-8220-ishan.patch, SOLR-8220-ishan.patch, SOLR-8220.patch, SOLR-8220.patch
>
>
> Many times a value will be both stored="true" and docValues="true" which 
> requires redundant data to be stored on disk. Since reading from docValues is 
> both efficient and a common practice (facets, analytics, streaming, etc), 
> reading values from docValues when a stored version of the field does not 
> exist would be a valuable disk usage optimization.
> The only caveat with this that I can see would be for multiValued fields as 
> they would always be returned sorted in the docValues approach. I believe 
> this is a fair compromise.
> I've done a rough implementation for this as a field transform, but I think 
> it should live closer to where stored fields are loaded in the 
> SolrIndexSearcher.
> Two open questions/observations:
> 1) There doesn't seem to be a standard way to read values for docValues, 
> facets, analytics, streaming, etc, all seem to be doing their own ways, 
> perhaps some of this logic should be centralized.
> 2) What will the API behavior be? (Below is my proposed implementation)
> Parameters for fl:
> - fl="docValueField"
>   -- return field from docValue if the field is not stored and in docValues, 
> if the field is stored return it from stored fields
> - fl="*"
>   -- return only stored fields
> - fl="+"
>    -- return stored fields and docValue fields
> 2a - would be easiest implementation and might be sufficient for a first 
> pass. 2b - is current behavior



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