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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-6863

Store sparse doc values more efficiently

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 5.4, 6.0
    • None
    • None
    • New

    Description

      For both NUMERIC fields and ordinals of SORTED fields, we store data in a dense way. As a consequence, if you have only 1000 documents out of 1B that have a value, and 8 bits are required to store those 1000 numbers, we will not require 1KB of storage, but 1GB.

      I suspect this mostly happens in abuse cases, but still it's a pity that we explode storage requirements. We could try to detect sparsity and compress accordingly.

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        1. LUCENE-6863.patch
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          Adrien Grand
        2. LUCENE-6863.patch
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          Adrien Grand
        3. LUCENE-6863.patch
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          Adrien Grand

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