Hi,
I'm a lucene user and i found it a very interesting software.
My question is related to how manage incremental update of the lucene
index.
In particular, adding more documents to a big index (~10 Gb) is the same
of
creating a new segment and then merge the indexes?
Adding document to an
Adding a new document does not immediately modify an index, so the time
it takes to add a new document to an existing index is not proportional
to the index size. It is constant. The execution time of optimize()
is proportional to the index size, so you want to do that only if you
really
I believe it takes constant time to add a new document to an index
because when adding a new document a new segment is created on the
disk, 'separate' from the other, existing, index segments.
The size of the index may come into play when this new segment has to
be merged with the existing
