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Radu Gheorghe commented on SOLR-15008:
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Thanks for pointing to the optimization, it's nice to know! But I don't think 
this was the problem. We initially added a query that did match a lot of docs. 
But it didn't seem to warm up anything. I'm sure there was a (syntax?) error 
somewhere, but we didn't see anything in the logs or something like that. Plus, 
copy-pasting the query parameters worked as expected.

We eventually added legacy facets and we stopped there, but I thought I should 
forward this info, just in case this is a different (known?) issue. I could 
look into it separately.

> Avoid building OrdinalMap for each facet
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-15008
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15008
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) 
>          Components: Facet Module
>    Affects Versions: 8.7
>            Reporter: Radu Gheorghe
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: performance
>         Attachments: Screenshot 2020-11-19 at 12.01.55.png, writes_commits.png
>
>
> I'm running against the following scenario:
>  * [JSON] faceting on a high cardinality field
>  * few matching documents => few unique values
> Yet the query almost always takes a long time. Here's an example taking 
> almost 4s for ~300 documents and unique values (edited a bit):
>  
> {code:java}
>     "QTime":3869,
>     "params":{
>       "json":"{\"query\": \"*:*\",
>       \"filter\": [\"type:test_type\", \"date:[1603670360 TO 1604361599]\", 
> \"unique_id:49866\"]
>       \"facet\": 
> {\"keywords\":{\"type\":\"terms\",\"field\":\"keywords\",\"limit\":20,\"mincount\":20}}}",
>       "rows":"0"}},
>   
> "response":{"numFound":333,"start":0,"maxScore":1.0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[]
>   },
>   "facets":{
>     "count":333,
>     "keywords":{
>       "buckets":[{
>           "val":"value1",
>           "count":124},
>   ...
> {code}
> I did some [profiling with our Sematext 
> Monitoring|https://sematext.com/docs/monitoring/on-demand-profiling/] and it 
> points me to OrdinalMap building (see attached screenshot). If I read the 
> code right, an OrdinalMap is built with every facet. And it's expensive since 
> there are many unique values in the shard (previously, there we more smaller 
> shards, making latency better, but this approach doesn't scale for this 
> particular use-case).
> If I'm right up to this point, I see a couple of potential improvements, 
> [inspired from 
> Elasticsearch|#search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation-execution-hint]:
>  # *Keep the OrdinalMap cached until the next softCommit*, so that only the 
> first query takes the penalty
>  # *Allow faceting on actual values (a Map) rather than ordinals*, for 
> situations like the one above where we have few matching documents. We could 
> potentially auto-detect this scenario (e.g. by configuring a threshold) and 
> use a Map when there are few documents
> I'm curious about what you're thinking:
>  * would a PR/patch be welcome for any of the two ideas above?
>  * do you see better options? am I missing something?
>  



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