This API (unexported) will estimate the amount of memory needed to execute
a search query over an index before the collector begins data collection.
Sample estimates for certain queries:
{Size: 10, BenchmarkUpsidedownSearchOverhead}
ESTIMATE BENCHMEM
TermQuery 4616 4796
MatchQuery 5210 5405
DisjunctionQuery (Match queries) 7700 8447
DisjunctionQuery (Term queries) 6514 6591
ConjunctionQuery (Match queries) 7524 8175
Nested disjunction query (disjunction of disjunctions) 10306 10708
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previously we parsed/returned large sections of the documents
back index row in order to compute facet information. this
would require parsing the protobuf of the entire back index row.
unfortunately this creates considerable garbage.
this new version introduces a visitor/callback approach to
working with data inside the back index row. the benefit
of this approach is that we can let the higher-level code
see values, prior to any copies of data being made or
intermediate garbage being created. implementations of
the callback must copy any value which they would like to
retain beyond the callback.
NOTE: this approach is duplicates code from the
automatically generated protobuf code
NOTE: this approach assumes that the "field" field be serialized
before the "terms" field. This is guaranteed by our currently
generated protobuf encoder, and is recommended by the protobuf
spec. But, decoders SHOULD support them occuring in any order,
which we do not.
Previously term entries were encoded pairwise (field/term), so
you'd have data like:
F1/T1 F1/T2 F1/T3 F2/T4 F3/T5
As you can see, even though field 1 has 3 terms, we repeat the F1
part in the encoded data. This is a bit wasteful.
In the new format we encode it as a list of terms for each field:
F1/T1,T2,T3 F2/T4 F3/T5
When fields have multiple terms, this saves space. In unit
tests there is no additional waste even in the case that a field
has only a single value.
Here are the results of an indexing test case (beer-search):
$ benchcmp indexing-before.txt indexing-after.txt
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkIndexing-4 11275835988 10745514321 -4.70%
benchmark old allocs new allocs delta
BenchmarkIndexing-4 25230685 22480494 -10.90%
benchmark old bytes new bytes delta
BenchmarkIndexing-4 4802816224 4741641856 -1.27%
And here are the results of a MatchAll search building a facet
on the "abv" field:
$ benchcmp facet-before.txt facet-after.txt
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkFacets-4 439762100 228064575 -48.14%
benchmark old allocs new allocs delta
BenchmarkFacets-4 9460208 3723286 -60.64%
benchmark old bytes new bytes delta
BenchmarkFacets-4 260784261 151746483 -41.81%
Although we expect the index to be smaller in many cases, the
beer-search index is about the same in this case. However,
this may be due to the underlying storage (boltdb) in this case.
Finally, the index version was bumped from 5 to 7, since smolder
also used version 6, which could lead to some confusion.
abhinavdangeti