queryNorm is just a normalizing factor and is the same value across all the results for a query, to just make the scores comparable. So even if it varies in different environment, you should not worried about.
http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html#formula_queryNorm - Defination - queryNorm(q) is just a normalizing factor used to make scores between queries comparable. This factor does not affect document ranking (since all ranked documents are multiplied by the same factor), but rather just attempts to make scores from different queries (or even different indexes) comparable Regards, Jayendra On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Allistair Crossley <a...@roxxor.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am seeing an issue I do not understand and hope that someone can shed some > light on this. The issue is that for a particular search we are seeing a > particular result rank in position 3 on one machine and position 8 on the > production machine. The position 3 is our desired and roughly expected > ranking. > > I have a local machine with solr and a version deployed on a production > server. My local machine's solr and the production version are both checked > out from our project's SVN trunk. They are identical files except for the > data files (not in SVN) and database connection settings. > > The index is populated exclusively via data import handler queries to a > database. > > I have exported the production database as-is to my local development machine > so that my local machine and production have access to the self same data. > > I execute a total full-import on both. > > Still, I see a different position for this document that should surely rank > in the same location, all else being equal. > > I ran debugQuery diff to see how the scores were being computed. See appendix > at foot of this email. > > As far as I can tell every single query normalisation block of the debug is > marginally different, e.g. > > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm (local) > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm (production) > > Which leads to a final score of -2 versus +1 which is enough to skew the > results from correct to incorrect (in terms of what we expect to see). > > - -2.286596 (local) > +1.0651637 = (production) > > I cannot explain this difference. The database is the same. The configuration > is the same. I have fully imported from scratch on both servers. What am I > missing? > > Thank you for your time > > Allistair > > ----- snip > > APPENDIX - debugQuery=on DIFF > > --- untitled > +++ (clipboard) > @@ -1,51 +1,49 @@ > -<str name="L12411p"> > +<str name="L12411"> > > -2.286596 = (MATCH) sum of: > - 1.6891675 = (MATCH) sum of: > - 1.3198489 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > - 0.023022119 = (MATCH) weight(text:dubai^0.1 in 1551), product of: > - 0.011795795 = queryWeight(text:dubai^0.1), product of: > - 0.1 = boost > +1.0651637 = (MATCH) sum of: > + 0.7871359 = (MATCH) sum of: > + 0.6151879 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > + 0.10713901 = (MATCH) weight(text:dubai in 1551), product of: > + 0.05489459 = queryWeight(text:dubai), product of: > 5.520305 = idf(docFreq=65, maxDocs=6063) > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm > 1.9517226 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(text:dubai in 1551), product of: > 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(text:dubai)=2) > 5.520305 = idf(docFreq=65, maxDocs=6063) > 0.25 = fieldNorm(field=text, doc=1551) > - 1.3196187 = (MATCH) weight(profile:dubai^2.0 in 1551), product of: > - 0.32609802 = queryWeight(profile:dubai^2.0), product of: > + 0.6141165 = (MATCH) weight(profile:dubai^2.0 in 1551), product of: > + 0.15175761 = queryWeight(profile:dubai^2.0), product of: > 2.0 = boost > 7.6305184 = idf(docFreq=7, maxDocs=6063) > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm > 4.0466933 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(profile:dubai in 1551), product of: > 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(profile:dubai)=2) > 7.6305184 = idf(docFreq=7, maxDocs=6063) > 0.375 = fieldNorm(field=profile, doc=1551) > - 0.36931866 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > - 0.0018293816 = (MATCH) weight(text:product^0.1 in 1551), product of: > - 0.003954251 = queryWeight(text:product^0.1), product of: > - 0.1 = boost > + 0.17194802 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > + 0.00851347 = (MATCH) weight(text:product in 1551), product of: > + 0.018402064 = queryWeight(text:product), product of: > 1.8505468 = idf(docFreq=2589, maxDocs=6063) > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm > 0.4626367 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(text:product in 1551), product of: > 1.0 = tf(termFreq(text:product)=1) > 1.8505468 = idf(docFreq=2589, maxDocs=6063) > 0.25 = fieldNorm(field=text, doc=1551) > - 0.36930037 = (MATCH) weight(profile:product^2.0 in 1551), product of: > - 0.1725098 = queryWeight(profile:product^2.0), product of: > + 0.17186289 = (MATCH) weight(profile:product^2.0 in 1551), product of: > + 0.08028162 = queryWeight(profile:product^2.0), product of: > 2.0 = boost > 4.036637 = idf(docFreq=290, maxDocs=6063) > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm > 2.14075 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(profile:product in 1551), product of: > 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(profile:product)=2) > 4.036637 = idf(docFreq=290, maxDocs=6063) > 0.375 = fieldNorm(field=profile, doc=1551) > - 0.59742856 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > - 0.59742856 = weight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5 in 1551), product of: > - 0.12465195 = queryWeight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5), product of: > + 0.27802786 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: > + 0.27802786 = weight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5 in 1551), product of: > + 0.05800981 = queryWeight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5), product of: > 0.5 = boost > 11.667155 = idf(profile: dubai=7 product=290) > - 0.021368012 = queryNorm > + 0.009944122 = queryNorm > 4.7927732 = fieldWeight(profile:"dubai product" in 1551), product of: > 1.0954452 = tf(phraseFreq=1.2) > 11.667155 = idf(profile: dubai=7 product=290) > > > >
