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Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheTermsFilter Class Reference

A Filter that only accepts documents whose single term value in the specified field is contained in the provided set of allowed terms. More...

Inherits Lucene.Net.Search.Filter.

Classes

class  FieldCacheTermsFilterDocIdSet
 

Public Member Functions

 FieldCacheTermsFilter (string field, params string[] terms)
 
override DocIdSet GetDocIdSet (IndexReader reader)
 
 

Properties

virtual FieldCache FieldCache [get]
 

Detailed Description

A Filter that only accepts documents whose single term value in the specified field is contained in the provided set of allowed terms.

This is the same functionality as TermsFilter (from contrib/queries), except this filter requires that the field contains only a single term for all documents. Because of drastically different implementations, they also have different performance characteristics, as described below.

The first invocation of this filter on a given field will be slower, since a StringIndex must be created. Subsequent invocations using the same field will re-use this cache. However, as with all functionality based on FieldCache, persistent RAM is consumed to hold the cache, and is not freed until the IndexReader is closed. In contrast, TermsFilter has no persistent RAM consumption.

With each search, this filter translates the specified set of Terms into a private OpenBitSet keyed by term number per unique IndexReader (normally one reader per segment). Then, during matching, the term number for each docID is retrieved from the cache and then checked for inclusion using the OpenBitSet. Since all testing is done using RAM resident data structures, performance should be very fast, most likely fast enough to not require further caching of the DocIdSet for each possible combination of terms. However, because docIDs are simply scanned linearly, an index with a great many small documents may find this linear scan too costly.

In contrast, TermsFilter builds up an OpenBitSet, keyed by docID, every time it's created, by enumerating through all matching docs using TermDocs to seek and scan through each term's docID list. While there is no linear scan of all docIDs, besides the allocation of the underlying array in the OpenBitSet, this approach requires a number of "disk seeks" in proportion to the number of terms, which can be exceptionally costly when there are cache misses in the OS's IO cache.

Generally, this filter will be slower on the first invocation for a given field, but subsequent invocations, even if you change the allowed set of Terms, should be faster than TermsFilter, especially as the number of Terms being matched increases. If you are matching only a very small number of terms, and those terms in turn match a very small number of documents, TermsFilter may perform faster.

Which filter is best is very application dependent.

Definition at line 97 of file FieldCacheTermsFilter.cs.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheTermsFilter.FieldCacheTermsFilter ( string  field,
params string[]  terms 
)

Definition at line 102 of file FieldCacheTermsFilter.cs.

Member Function Documentation

override DocIdSet Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheTermsFilter.GetDocIdSet ( IndexReader  reader)
virtual

Creates a DocIdSet enumerating the documents that should be permitted in search results. NOTE: null can be returned if no documents are accepted by this Filter.

Note: This method will be called once per segment in the index during searching. The returned DocIdSet must refer to document IDs for that segment, not for the top-level reader.

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Returns
a DocIdSet that provides the documents which should be permitted or prohibited in search results. NOTE: null can be returned if no documents will be accepted by this Filter.
Parameters
readerA IndexReader instance opened on the index currently searched on. Note, it is likely that the provided reader does not represent the whole underlying index i.e. if the index has more than one segment the given reader only represents a single segment.
See Also
DocIdBitSet

Implements Lucene.Net.Search.Filter.

Definition at line 113 of file FieldCacheTermsFilter.cs.

Property Documentation

virtual FieldCache Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheTermsFilter.FieldCache
get

Definition at line 109 of file FieldCacheTermsFilter.cs.


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