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<li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: Self-explanatory
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(yes/no)</li>
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<li><i>CPU</i>: Self-explanatory (Type, Speed and Quantity)</li>
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<li><i>RAM</i>: Self-explanatory</li>
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<b>Software environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Lucene Version</i>: Self-explanatory</li>
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<li><i>Java Version</i>: Version of Java SDK/JRE that is run
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<li><i>Java VM</i>: Server/client VM, Sun VM/JRockIt</li>
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<li><i>OS Version</i>: Self-explanatory</li>
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<li><i>Location of index</i>: Is the index stored in filesystem
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<b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br />
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<li><i>Number of source documents</i>: Number of documents being
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indexed</li>
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<li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>:
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Self-explanatory</li>
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<li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>:
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Self-explanatory</li>
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<li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Where are the
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documents being indexed located?
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Filesystem, DB, http, etc.</li>
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<li><i>File type of source documents</i>: Types of files being
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indexed, e.g. HTML files, XML files, PDF files, etc.</li>
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<li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: Parsers used for parsing the
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various files for indexing,
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e.g. XML parser, HTML parser, etc.</li>
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<li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: Type of Lucene analyzer used</li>
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<li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: Number of Fields each
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Document contains</li>
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<li><i>Type of fields</i>: Type of each field</li>
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<li><i>Index persistence</i>: Where the index is stored, e.g.
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FSDirectory, SqlDirectory, etc.</li>
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<b>Figures</b><br />
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<li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 indexing
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runs)</i>: Time taken to index all files</li>
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<li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: Time taken to index
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1000 files</li>
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<li><i>Memory consumption</i>: Self-explanatory</li>
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<li><i>Query speed</i>: average time a query takes, type
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of queries (e.g. simple one-term query, phrase query),
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not measuring any overhead outside Lucene</li>
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<li><i>Notes</i>: Any comments which don't belong in the above,
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special tuning/strategies, etc.</li>
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<a name="User-submitted Benchmarks"><strong>User-submitted Benchmarks</strong></a>
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These benchmarks have been kindly submitted by Lucene users for
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reference purposes.
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<p><b>We make NO guarantees regarding their accuracy or
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validity.</b>
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<p>We strongly recommend you conduct your own
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performance benchmarks before deciding on a particular
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hardware/software setup (and hopefully submit
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these figures to us).
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<a name="Hamish Carpenter's benchmarks"><strong>Hamish Carpenter's benchmarks</strong></a>
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<b>Hardware Environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: yes</li>
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<li><i>CPU</i>: Intel x86 P4 1.5Ghz</li>
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<li><i>RAM</i>: 512 DDR</li>
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<li><i>Drive configuration</i>: IDE 7200rpm Raid-1</li>
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<b>Software environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Lucene Version</i>: 1.3</li>
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<li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1 IBM JITC Enabled</li>
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<li><i>Java VM</i>: </li>
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<li><i>OS Version</i>: Debian Linux 2.4.18-686</li>
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<li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li>
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<b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br />
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<li><i>Number of source documents</i>: Random generator. Set
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to make 1M documents
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in 2x500,000 batches.</li>
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<li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: > 1GB if
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stored</li>
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<li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 1KB</li>
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<li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Filesystem</li>
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<li><i>File type of source documents</i>: Generated</li>
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<li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: Default</li>
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<li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 11</li>
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<li><i>Type of fields</i>: 1 date, 1 id, 9 text</li>
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<li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li>
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<b>Figures</b><br />
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<li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3
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indexing runs)</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 49 seconds</li>
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<li><i>Memory consumption</i>:</li>
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<b>Notes</b><br />
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A windows client ran a random document generator which
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created
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documents based on some arrays of values and an excerpt
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(approx 1kb)
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from a text file of the bible (King James version).<br />
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These were submitted via a socket connection (open throughout
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indexing process).<br />
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The index writer was not closed between index calls.<br />
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This created a 400Mb index in 23 files (after
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optimization).<br />
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<u>Query details</u>:<br />
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Set up a threaded class to start x number of simultaneous
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threads to
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search the above created index.
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Query: +Domain:sos +(+((Name:goo*^2.0 Name:plan*^2.0)
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(Teaser:goo* Tea
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ser:plan*) (Details:goo* Details:plan*)) -Cancel:y)
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+DisplayStartDate:[mkwsw2jk0
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-mq3dj1uq0] +EndDate:[mq3dj1uq0-ntlxuggw0]
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<p>
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This query counted 34000 documents and I limited the returned
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documents
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to 5.
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This is using Peter Halacsy's IndexSearcherCache slightly
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modified to
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be a singleton returned cached searchers for a given
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directory. This
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solved an initial problem with too many files open and
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running out of
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linux handles for them.
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<pre>
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Threads|Avg Time per query (ms)
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1 1009ms
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2 2043ms
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3 3087ms
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4 4045ms
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.. .
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.. .
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10 10091ms
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</pre>
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I removed the two date range terms from the query and it made
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a HUGE
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difference in performance. With 4 threads the avg time
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dropped to 900ms!
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</p>
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<p>Other query optimizations made little difference.</p>
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</p>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Hamish can be contacted at hamish at catalyst.net.nz.
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<a name="Justin Greene's benchmarks"><strong>Justin Greene's benchmarks</strong></a>
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<b>Hardware Environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: No, but nominal
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usage at time of indexing.</li>
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<li><i>CPU</i>: Compaq Proliant 1850R/600 2 X pIII 600</li>
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<li><i>RAM</i>: 1GB, 256MB allocated to JVM.</li>
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<li><i>Drive configuration</i>: RAID 5 on Fibre Channel
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Array</li>
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<p>
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<b>Software environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1_06</li>
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<li><i>Java VM</i>: </li>
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<li><i>OS Version</i>: Winnt 4/Sp6</li>
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<li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br />
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<li><i>Number of source documents</i>: about 60K</li>
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<li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: 6.5GB</li>
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<li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 100K
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(6.5GB/60K documents)</li>
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<li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: filesystem on
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NTFS</li>
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<li><i>File type of source documents</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: Currently the only parser
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used is the Quiotix html
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parser.</li>
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<li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: SimpleAnalyzer</li>
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<li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 8</li>
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<li><i>Type of fields</i>: All strings, and all are stored
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and indexed.</li>
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<li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Figures</b><br />
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<li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3
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indexing runs)</i>: 1 hour 12 minutes, 1 hour 14 minutes and 1 hour 17
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minutes. Note that the #
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and size of documents changes daily.</li>
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<li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Memory consumption</i>: JVM is given 256MB and uses it
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all.</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Notes</b><br />
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<p>
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We have 10 threads reading files from the filesystem and
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parsing and
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analyzing them and the pushing them onto a queue and a single
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thread poping
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them from the queue and indexing. Note that we are indexing
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email messages
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and are storing the entire plaintext in of the message in the
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index. If the
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message contains attachment and we do not have a filter for
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the attachment
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(ie. we do not do PDFs yet), we discard the data.
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Justin can be contacted at tvxh-lw4x at spamex.com.
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<a name="Daniel Armbrust's benchmarks"><strong>Daniel Armbrust's benchmarks</strong></a>
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My disclaimer is that this is a very poor "Benchmark". It was not done for raw speed,
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nor was the total index built in one shot. The index was created on several different
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machines (all with these specs, or very similar), with each machine indexing batches of 500,000 to
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1 million documents per batch. Each of these small indexes was then moved to a
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much larger drive, where they were all merged together into a big index.
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This process was done manually, over the course of several months, as the sources became available.
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</p>
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<b>Hardware Environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: no - The machine had moderate to low load. However, the indexing process was built single
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threaded, so it only took advantage of 1 of the processors. It usually got 100% of this processor.</li>
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<li><i>CPU</i>: Sun Ultra 80 4 x 64 bit processors</li>
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<li><i>RAM</i>: 4 GB Memory</li>
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<li><i>Drive configuration</i>: Ultra-SCSI Wide 10000 RPM 36GB Drive</li>
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<b>Software environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Lucene Version</i>: 1.2</li>
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<li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1</li>
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<li><i>Java VM</i>: </li>
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<li><i>OS Version</i>: Sun 5.8 (64 bit)</li>
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<li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br />
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<li><i>Number of source documents</i>: 13,820,517</li>
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<li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: 87.3 GB</li>
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<li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 6.3 KB</li>
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<li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Filesystem</li>
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<li><i>File type of source documents</i>: XML</li>
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<li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: A home grown analyzer that simply removes stopwords.</li>
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<li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 1 - 31</li>
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<li><i>Type of fields</i>: All text, though 2 of them are dates (20001205) that we filter on</li>
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<li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li>
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<li><i>Index size</i>: 12.5 GB</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Figures</b><br />
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<li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3
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indexing runs)</i>: For 617271 documents, 209698 seconds (or ~2.5 days)</li>
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<li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 340 Seconds</li>
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<li><i>Memory consumption</i>: (java executed with) java -Xmx1000m -Xss8192k so
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1 GB of memory was allotted to the indexer</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Notes</b><br />
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<p>
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The source documents were XML. The "indexer" opened each document one at a time, ran an
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XSL transformation on them, and then proceeded to index the stream. The indexer optimized
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the index every 50,000 documents (on this run) though previously, we optimized every
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300,000 documents. The performance didn't change much either way. We did no other
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tuning (RAM Directories, separate process to pretransform the source material, etc.)
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to make it index faster. When all of these individual indexes were built, they were
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merged together into the main index. That process usually took ~ a day.
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</p>
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</p>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Daniel can be contacted at Armbrust.Daniel at mayo.edu.
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<a name="Geoffrey Peddle's benchmarks"><strong>Geoffrey Peddle's benchmarks</strong></a>
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</font>
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<blockquote>
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<p>
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I'm doing a technical evaluation of search engines
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for Ariba, an enterprise application software company.
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I compared Lucene to a commercial C language based
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search engine which I'll refer to as vendor A.
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Overall Lucene's performance was similar to vendor A
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and met our application's requirements. I've
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summarized our results below.
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</p>
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<p>
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Search scalability:<br />
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We ran a set of 16 queries in a single thread for 20
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iterations. We report below the times for the last 15
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iterations (ie after the system was warmed up). The
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4 sets of results below are for indexes with between
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50,000 documents to 600,000 documents. Although the
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times for Lucene grew faster with document count than
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vendor A they were comparable.
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</p>
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<pre>
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50K documents
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Lucene 5.2 seconds
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A 7.2
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200K
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Lucene 15.3
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A 15.2
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400K
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Lucene 28.2
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A 25.5
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600K
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Lucene 41
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A 33
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</pre>
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<p>
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Individual Query times:<br />
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Total query times are very similar between the 2
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systems but there were larger differences when you
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looked at individual queries.
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</p>
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<p>
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For simple queries with small result sets Vendor A was
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consistently faster than Lucene. For example a
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single query might take vendor A 32 thousands of a
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second and Lucene 64 thousands of a second. Both
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times are however well within acceptable response
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times for our application.
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</p>
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<p>
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For simple queries with large result sets Vendor A was
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consistently slower than Lucene. For example a
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single query might take vendor A 300 thousands of a
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second and Lucene 200 thousands of a second.
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For more complex queries of the form (term1 or term2
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or term3) AND (term4 or term5 or term6) AND (term7 or
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term8) the results were more divergent. For
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queries with small result sets Vendor A generally had
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very short response times and sometimes Lucene had
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significantly larger response times. For example
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Vendor A might take 16 thousands of a second and
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Lucene might take 156. I do not consider it to be
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the case that Lucene's response time grew unexpectedly
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but rather that Vendor A appeared to be taking
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advantage of an optimization which Lucene didn't have.
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(I believe there's been discussions on the dev
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mailing list on complex queries of this sort.)
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</p>
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<p>
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Index Size:<br />
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For our test data the size of both indexes grew
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linearly with the number of documents. Note that
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these sizes are compact sizes, not maximum size during
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index loading. The numbers below are from running du
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-k in the directory containing the index data. The
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larger number's below for Vendor A may be because it
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supports additional functionality not available in
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Lucene. I think it's the constant rate of growth
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rather than the absolute amount which is more
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important.
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</p>
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<pre>
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50K documents
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Lucene 45516 K
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A 63921
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200K
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Lucene 171565
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A 228370
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400K
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Lucene 345717
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A 457843
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600K
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Lucene 511338
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A 684913
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</pre>
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<p>
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Indexing Times:<br />
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These times are for reading the documents from our
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database, processing them, inserting them into the
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document search product and index compacting. Our
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data has a large number of fields/attributes. For
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this test I restricted Lucene to 24 attributes to
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reduce the number of files created. Doing this I was
|
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able to specify a merge width for Lucene of 60. I
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found in general that Lucene indexing performance to
|
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be very sensitive to changes in the merge width.
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Note also that our application does a full compaction
|
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after inserting every 20,000 documents. These times
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are just within our acceptable limits but we are
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interested in alternatives to increase Lucene's
|
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performance in this area.
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</p>
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<p>
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<pre>
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600K documents
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Lucene 81 minutes
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A 34 minutes
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</pre>
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</p>
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<p>
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(I don't have accurate results for all sizes on this
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measure but believe that the indexing time for both
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solutions grew essentially linearly with size. The
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time to compact the index generally grew with index
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size but it's a small percent of overall time at these
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sizes.)
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</p>
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<ul>
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<p>
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<b>Hardware Environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: yes</li>
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<li><i>CPU</i>: Dell Pentium 4 CPU 2.00Ghz, 1cpu</li>
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<li><i>RAM</i>: 1 GB Memory</li>
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<li><i>Drive configuration</i>: Fujitsu MAM3367MP SCSI </li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Software environment</b><br />
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<li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.4.2_02</li>
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<li><i>Java VM</i>: JDK</li>
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<li><i>OS Version</i>: Windows XP </li>
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<li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br />
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<li><i>Number of source documents</i>: 600,000</li>
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<li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: from database</li>
|
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<li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: from database</li>
|
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<li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: from database</li>
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<li><i>File type of source documents</i>: XML</li>
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<li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li>
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<li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: small variation on WhitespaceAnalyzer</li>
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<li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 24</li>
|
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<li><i>Type of fields</i>: A1 keyword, 1 big unindexed, rest are unstored and a mix of tokenized/untokenized</li>
|
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<li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li>
|
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<li><i>Index size</i>: 12.5 GB</li>
|
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</p>
|
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<p>
|
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<b>Figures</b><br />
|
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<li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3
|
|
indexing runs)</i>: 600,000 documents in 81 minutes (du -k = 511338)</li>
|
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<li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 123 documents/second</li>
|
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<li><i>Memory consumption</i>: -ms256m -mx512m -Xss4m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M</li>
|
|
</p>
|
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<p>
|
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<b>Notes</b><br />
|
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<p>
|
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<li>merge width of 60</li>
|
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<li>did a compact every 20,000 documents</li>
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</p>
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</p>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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