Greg Bowyer created SOLR-3763:
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Summary: Make solr use lucene filters directly
Key: SOLR-3763
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3763
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 4.0, 4.1, 5.0
Reporter: Greg Bowyer
Assignee: Greg Bowyer
Presently solr uses bitsets, queries and collectors to implement the concept of
filters. This has proven to be very powerful, but does come at the cost of
introducing a large body of code into solr making it harder to optimise and
maintain.
Another issue here is that filters currently cache sub-optimally given the
changes in lucene towards atomic readers.
Rather than patch these issues, this is an attempt to rework the filters in
solr to leverage the Filter subsystem from lucene as much as possible.
In good time the aim is to get this to do the following:
∘ Handle setting up filter implementations that are able to correctly cache
with reference to the AtomicReader that they are caching for rather that for
the entire index at large
∘ Get the post filters working, I am thinking that this can be done via lucenes
chained filter, with the ‟expensive” filters being put towards the end of the
chain - this has different semantics internally to the original implementation
but IMHO should have the same result for end users
∘ Learn how to create filters that are potentially more efficient, at present
solr basically runs a simple query that gathers a DocSet that relates to the
documents that we want filtered; it would be interesting to make use of filter
implementations that are in theory faster than query filters (for instance
there are filters that are able to query the FieldCache)
∘ Learn how to decompose filters so that a complex filter query can be cached
(potentially) as its constituent parts; for example the filter below currently
needs love, care and feeding to ensure that the filter cache is not unduly
stressed
{code}
'category:(100) OR category:(200) OR category:(300)'
{code}
Really there is no reason not to express this in a cached form as
{code}
BooleanFilter(
FilterClause(CachedFilter(TermFilter(Term("category", 100))), SHOULD),
FilterClause(CachedFilter(TermFilter(Term("category", 200))), SHOULD),
FilterClause(CachedFilter(TermFilter(Term("category", 300))), SHOULD)
)
{code}
This would yeild better cache usage I think as we can resuse docsets across
multiple queries as well as avoid issues when filters are presented in
differing orders
∘ Instead of end users providing costing we might (and this is a big might
FWIW), be able to create a sort of execution plan of filters, leveraging a
combination of what the index is able to tell us as well as sampling and
‟educated guesswork”; in essence this is what some DBMS software, for example
postgresql does - it has a genetic algo that attempts to solve the travelling
salesman - to great effect
∘ I am sure I will probably come up with other ambitious ideas to plug in here
..... :S
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