Jason Rutherglen wrote:
2) Implement realtime search by incrementally creating and merging readers in memory. The system would use MemoryIndex or InstantiatedIndex to quickly (more quickly than RAMDirectory) create indexes from added documents.
As a baseline, how fast is it to simply use RAMDirectory? If one, e.g., flushes changes every 10ms or so, and has a background thread that uses IndexReader.reopen() to keep a fresh version for reading?
Also, what are the requirements? Must a document be visible to search within 10ms of being added? Or must it be visible to search from the time that the call to add it returns? In the latter case one might still use an approach like the above. Writing a small new segment to a RAMDirectory and then, with no merging, calling IndexReader.reopen(), should be quite fast. All merging could be done in the background, as should post-merge reopens() that involve large segments.
In short, I wonder if new reader and writer implementations are in fact required or whether, perhaps with a few optimizations, the existing implementations might meet this need.
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