
gsingers at apache
Sep 15, 2007, 4:30 AM
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Sounds like faceting, I think. Have you looked at Solr? -Grant On Sep 15, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Mohammad Norouzi wrote: > Hello, > In our application, we have many categories (indexes) in which > different > kind of information have been indexed. we provided a facility for > our users > to opt their category to search and we also provided a way that > they select > more than one category to search, afterwards, we must return back > the result > from selected categories in which they are related to each other > and discard > other documents which their IDs are not common with the results > from other > categories, in other words, an intersection of all results > > currently, each category has an ID field and this help us to find > which > document to select and which one to discard, in order to implement > this, we > defined a HitCollector in which, we collect all the Lucene's > document IDs to > load the document later as well as all category ID to find its > relationship > with other result. we store these IDs in a java.util.BitSet > structure to > save the memory and also for performance issues. > now this works fine, but it's messy, further more, to find all common > documents we have to compare all the results two by two and this is > really > exhaustive and eat up the CPU resources and this deprived us from the > Lucene's speed of searching. > > In my opinion, if this simple relationship could be embedded inside > the > Lucene Api at low level sections of loading documents, this process > would be > done very fast, and I think this feature will make many Lucene's > user happy > > I want to know, whether this is possible for Lucene developers or > not, or it > is in their TO DO list or they are going to provide it in future. > > thank you all Lucene developers and producers. > > -- > Regards, > Mohammad Norouzi > -------------------------- > see my blog: http://brainable.blogspot.com/ > another in Persian: http://fekre-motefavet.blogspot.com/ -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://lucene.grantingersoll.com Lucene Helpful Hints: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscribe [at] lucene For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-help [at] lucene
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