On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Uwe Schindler <uschind...@pangaea.de>wrote:
> In Lucene 4.1 the compressing codec is no longer a separate codec, the
> main Codec ("Lucene41") compresses by default. Just reindex your data or
> use IndexUpgrader.
>
Thanks Uwe. This one helped. My index size came down from 816 Mb to 198 Mb.
Win!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy [mailto:youngestachie...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:36 AM
> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Separating the document dataset and the index dataset
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote:
> >
> > > You can use Lucene 4.1 nightly builds from http://goo.gl/jZ6YD - it is
> > > not yet released, but upgrading from Lucene 4.0 is easy. If you are
> > > not yet on Lucene 4.0, there is more work to do, in that case a
> > > solution to your problem would be to save the stored fields in a
> > > separate database/whatever and only add *one* stored field to your
> > > index, containing the document ID inside this external database.
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> > Thank you Uwe. Already tried with the nightly build, but the codecs.jar
> in it
> > isn't having a compressing codec at all, Tried pulling out from the
> trunk and
> > then compiling, same issue, *org.apache.lucene.codecs.compressing*is
> > missing. Any pointers?
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy [mailto:youngestachie...@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:32 AM
> > > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Separating the document dataset and the index dataset
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Jain Rahul <ja...@ivycomptech.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If you are using lucene 4.0 and afford to compress your document
> > > > > dataset while indexing, it will be a huge savings in terms of disk
> > > > > space and also in IO (resulting in indexing throughput).
> > > > >
> > > > > In our case, it has helped us a lot as compressed data size was
> > > > > roughly 3 times less than of original document data set size.
> > > > >
> > > > > You may want to check the below link.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > http://blog.jpountz.net/post/33247161884/efficient-compressed-stor
> > > > > ed-f
> > > > > ields-with-lucene
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Rahul
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you Rahul. That indeed seems promising. Just one doubt, how do
> > > > I plug this CompressingStoredFieldsFormat into my app, as in I
> > > > tried
> > > bundling
> > > > it in a codec, but not sure if I am proceeding in the right path.
> > > > Any
> > > pointers
> > > > would be of great help!
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
> > [mailto:youngestachie...@gmail.com]
> > > > > Sent: 07 December 2012 13:03
> > > > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> > > > > Subject: Separating the document dataset and the index dataset
> > > > >
> > > > > Greetings,
> > > > >
> > > > > We are using lucene in our log analysis tool. We get data
> > > > > around 35Gb a day and we have this practice of zipping week old
> > > > > indices and then unzip when need arises.
> > > > >
> > > > > Though the compression offers a huge saving with
> > > > > respect to disk space, the decompression becomes an overhead. At
> > > > > times it takes around
> > > > > 10 minutes (de-compression takes 95% of the time) to search across
> > > > > a month long set of logs. We need to unzip fully atleast to get
> > > > > the total count from the index.
> > > > >
> > > > > My question is, we are setting Index.Store to true. Is
> > > > > there a way where we can split the index dataset and the document
> > > > > dataset. In my understanding, if at all separation is possible,
> > > > > the document dataset can alone be zipped leaving the index dataset
> > > > > on disk? Will it be tangible to do this? Any pointers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Or is adding more disks the only solution? Thanks in
> > > advance!
> > > > >
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