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Radu Gheorghe commented on SOLR-15008:
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Thanks for pointing to the optimization, it's nice to know! But I don't think
this was the problem. We initially added a query that did match a lot of docs.
But it didn't seem to warm up anything. I'm sure there was a (syntax?) error
somewhere, but we didn't see anything in the logs or something like that. Plus,
copy-pasting the query parameters worked as expected.
We eventually added legacy facets and we stopped there, but I thought I should
forward this info, just in case this is a different (known?) issue. I could
look into it separately.
> Avoid building OrdinalMap for each facet
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>
> Key: SOLR-15008
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15008
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: Facet Module
> Affects Versions: 8.7
> Reporter: Radu Gheorghe
> Priority: Major
> Labels: performance
> Attachments: Screenshot 2020-11-19 at 12.01.55.png, writes_commits.png
>
>
> I'm running against the following scenario:
> * [JSON] faceting on a high cardinality field
> * few matching documents => few unique values
> Yet the query almost always takes a long time. Here's an example taking
> almost 4s for ~300 documents and unique values (edited a bit):
>
> {code:java}
> "QTime":3869,
> "params":{
> "json":"{\"query\": \"*:*\",
> \"filter\": [\"type:test_type\", \"date:[1603670360 TO 1604361599]\",
> \"unique_id:49866\"]
> \"facet\":
> {\"keywords\":{\"type\":\"terms\",\"field\":\"keywords\",\"limit\":20,\"mincount\":20}}}",
> "rows":"0"}},
>
> "response":{"numFound":333,"start":0,"maxScore":1.0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[]
> },
> "facets":{
> "count":333,
> "keywords":{
> "buckets":[{
> "val":"value1",
> "count":124},
> ...
> {code}
> I did some [profiling with our Sematext
> Monitoring|https://sematext.com/docs/monitoring/on-demand-profiling/] and it
> points me to OrdinalMap building (see attached screenshot). If I read the
> code right, an OrdinalMap is built with every facet. And it's expensive since
> there are many unique values in the shard (previously, there we more smaller
> shards, making latency better, but this approach doesn't scale for this
> particular use-case).
> If I'm right up to this point, I see a couple of potential improvements,
> [inspired from
> Elasticsearch|#search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation-execution-hint]:
> # *Keep the OrdinalMap cached until the next softCommit*, so that only the
> first query takes the penalty
> # *Allow faceting on actual values (a Map) rather than ordinals*, for
> situations like the one above where we have few matching documents. We could
> potentially auto-detect this scenario (e.g. by configuring a threshold) and
> use a Map when there are few documents
> I'm curious about what you're thinking:
> * would a PR/patch be welcome for any of the two ideas above?
> * do you see better options? am I missing something?
>
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