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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-1606:
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bq. But the fixed trailing prefix case I think should be all seeks.
I'll use regular expressions here, just to elaborate on this.
what if its ab.*[ab]? but the ab.*[a-z]? ... where do you draw the line :)
its also worth mentioning that the automaton "seek", nextString() is a lot more
heavyweight right now than its "compare", which is extremely fast. its the DFA
in tableized (array) form, just as an array lookup.
This is why it beats even the hairy wildcard code we had before, after Uwe
fixed my bug of course :)
I think there are heuristics like you say we can do, and there's a lot of
knowledge in the DFA we can use to implement these for optimal behavior.
I think we can also improve the code itself, so that "seek", the nextString()
method itself, is more lightweight.
on the other hand the big unknown is the distribution of the term dictionary
itself.
I did a very basic implementation here, I'm hoping we can come up with better
ideas that work well on average.
One problem is, what is an "average" regular expression or wildcard query :)
> Automaton Query/Filter (scalable regex)
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Robert Muir
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.1
>
> Attachments: automaton.patch, automatonMultiQuery.patch,
> automatonmultiqueryfuzzy.patch, automatonMultiQuerySmart.patch,
> automatonWithWildCard.patch, automatonWithWildCard2.patch,
> BenchWildcard.java, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606_nodep.patch
>
>
> Attached is a patch for an AutomatonQuery/Filter (name can change if its not
> suitable).
> Whereas the out-of-box contrib RegexQuery is nice, I have some very large
> indexes (100M+ unique tokens) where queries are quite slow, 2 minutes, etc.
> Additionally all of the existing RegexQuery implementations in Lucene are
> really slow if there is no constant prefix. This implementation does not
> depend upon constant prefix, and runs the same query in 640ms.
> Some use cases I envision:
> 1. lexicography/etc on large text corpora
> 2. looking for things such as urls where the prefix is not constant (http://
> or ftp://)
> The Filter uses the BRICS package (http://www.brics.dk/automaton/) to convert
> regular expressions into a DFA. Then, the filter "enumerates" terms in a
> special way, by using the underlying state machine. Here is my short
> description from the comments:
> The algorithm here is pretty basic. Enumerate terms but instead of a
> binary accept/reject do:
>
> 1. Look at the portion that is OK (did not enter a reject state in the
> DFA)
> 2. Generate the next possible String and seek to that.
> the Query simply wraps the filter with ConstantScoreQuery.
> I did not include the automaton.jar inside the patch but it can be downloaded
> from http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ and is BSD-licensed.
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