MemoryIndex (Lucene 10.5.1 memory API)
Description: declaration: package: org.apache.lucene.index.memory, class: MemoryIndex

Package org.apache.lucene.index.memory

# Class MemoryIndex

java.lang.Object
org.apache.lucene.index.memory.MemoryIndex

public class MemoryIndex extends Object
High-performance single-document main memory Apache Lucene fulltext search index.

Overview

This class is a replacement/substitute for RAM-resident `Directory` implementations. It is designed to enable maximum efficiency for on-the-fly matchmaking combining structured and fuzzy fulltext search in realtime streaming applications such as Nux XQuery based XML message queues, publish-subscribe systems for Blogs/newsfeeds, text chat, data acquisition and distribution systems, application level routers, firewalls, classifiers, etc. Rather than targeting fulltext search of infrequent queries over huge persistent data archives (historic search), this class targets fulltext search of huge numbers of queries over comparatively small transient realtime data (prospective search). For example as in

     float score = search(String text, Query query)

Each instance can hold at most one Lucene "document", with a document containing zero or more "fields", each field having a name and a fulltext value. The fulltext value is tokenized (split and transformed) into zero or more index terms (aka words) on `addField()`, according to the policy implemented by an Analyzer. For example, Lucene analyzers can split on whitespace, normalize to lower case for case insensitivity, ignore common terms with little discriminatory value such as "he", "in", "and" (stop words), reduce the terms to their natural linguistic root form such as "fishing" being reduced to "fish" (stemming), resolve synonyms/inflexions/thesauri (upon indexing and/or querying), etc. For details, see Lucene Analyzer Intro.

Arbitrary Lucene queries can be run against this class - see Lucene Query Syntax as well as Query Parser Rules. Note that a Lucene query selects on the field names and associated (indexed) tokenized terms, not on the original fulltext(s) - the latter are not stored but rather thrown away immediately after tokenization.

For some interesting background information on search technology, see Bob Wyman's Prospective Search, Jim Gray's A Call to Arms - Custom subscriptions, and Tim Bray's On Search, the Series.

Example Usage

     Analyzer analyzer = new SimpleAnalyzer(version);
     MemoryIndex index = new MemoryIndex();
     index.addField("content", "Readings about Salmons and other select Alaska fishing Manuals", analyzer);
     index.addField("author", "Tales of James", analyzer);
     QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(version, "content", analyzer);
     float score = index.search(parser.parse("+author:james +salmon~ +fish* manual~"));
     if (score > 0.0f) {
         System.out.println("it's a match");
     } else {
         System.out.println("no match found");
     }
     System.out.println("indexData=" + index.toString());

Example XQuery Usage

     (: An XQuery that finds all books authored by James that have something to do with "salmon fishing manuals", sorted by relevance :)
     declare namespace lucene = "java:nux.xom.pool.FullTextUtil";
     declare variable $query := "+salmon~ +fish* manual~"; (: any arbitrary Lucene query can go here :)

     for $book in /books/book[author="James" and lucene:match(abstract, $query) > 0.0]
     let $score := lucene:match($book/abstract, $query)
     order by $score descending
     return $book

Thread safety guarantees

MemoryIndex is not normally thread-safe for adds or queries. However, queries are thread-safe after `freeze()` has been called.

Performance Notes

Internally there's a new data structure geared towards efficient indexing and searching, plus the necessary support code to seamlessly plug into the Lucene framework.

This class performs very well for very small texts (e.g. 10 chars) as well as for large texts (e.g. 10 MB) and everything in between. Typically, it is about 10-100 times faster than RAM-resident directory.

Note that other `Directory` implementations have particularly large efficiency overheads for small to medium sized texts, both in time and space. Indexing a field with N tokens takes O(N) in the best case, and O(N logN) in the worst case.

Example throughput of many simple term queries over a single MemoryIndex: ~500000 queries/sec on a MacBook Pro, jdk 1.5.0_06, server VM. As always, your mileage may vary.

If you're curious about the whereabouts of bottlenecks, run java 1.5 with the non-perturbing '-server -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples,depth=10' flags, then study the trace log and correlate its hotspot trailer with its call stack headers (see hprof tracing ).

- ## Constructor Summary

  Constructors
  Constructor
  Description
  `MemoryIndex()`
  Constructs an empty instance that will not store offsets or payloads.
  `MemoryIndex(boolean storeOffsets)`
  Constructs an empty instance that can optionally store the start and end character offset of each token term in the text.
  `MemoryIndex(boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads)`
  Constructs an empty instance with the option of storing offsets and payloads.

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `void`
  `addField(String fieldName, String text, Analyzer analyzer)`
  Convenience method; Tokenizes the given field text and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding an indexed non-keyword Lucene `Field` that is tokenized, not stored, termVectorStored with positions (or termVectorStored with positions and offsets),
  `void`
  `addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream)`
  Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`.
  `void`
  `addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream, int positionIncrementGap)`
  Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`.
  `void`
  `addField(String fieldName, TokenStream tokenStream, int positionIncrementGap, int offsetGap)`
  Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`.
  `void`
  `addField(IndexableField field, Analyzer analyzer)`
  Adds a lucene `IndexableField` to the MemoryIndex using the provided analyzer.
  `IndexSearcher`
  `createSearcher()`
  Creates and returns a searcher that can be used to execute arbitrary Lucene queries and to collect the resulting query results as hits.
  `void`
  `freeze()`
  Prepares the MemoryIndex for querying in a non-lazy way.
  `static MemoryIndex`
  `fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer)`
  Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
  `static MemoryIndex`
  `fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer, boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads)`
  Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
  `static MemoryIndex`
  `fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer, boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads, long maxReusedBytes)`
  Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
  `<T> TokenStream`
  `keywordTokenStream(Collection<T> keywords)`
  Convenience method; Creates and returns a token stream that generates a token for each keyword in the given collection, "as is", without any transforming text analysis.
  `void`
  `reset()`
  Resets the `MemoryIndex` to its initial state and recycles all internal buffers.
  `float`
  `search(Query query)`
  Convenience method that efficiently returns the relevance score by matching this index against the given Lucene query expression.
  `void`
  `setSimilarity(Similarity similarity)`
  Set the Similarity to be used for calculating field norms
  `String`
  `toStringDebug()`
  Returns a String representation of the index data for debugging purposes.

  ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

  `clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

- ## Constructor Details

  - ### MemoryIndex

    public MemoryIndex()
    Constructs an empty instance that will not store offsets or payloads.

  - ### MemoryIndex

    public MemoryIndex(boolean storeOffsets)
    Constructs an empty instance that can optionally store the start and end character offset of each token term in the text. This can be useful for highlighting of hit locations with the Lucene highlighter package. But it will not store payloads; use another constructor for that.
    Parameters:
      `storeOffsets` - whether or not to store the start and end character offset of each token term in the text

  - ### MemoryIndex

    public MemoryIndex(boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads)
    Constructs an empty instance with the option of storing offsets and payloads.
    Parameters:
      `storeOffsets` - store term offsets at each position
      `storePayloads` - store term payloads at each position

- ## Method Details

  - ### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName, String text, Analyzer analyzer)
    Convenience method; Tokenizes the given field text and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding an indexed non-keyword Lucene `Field` that is tokenized, not stored, termVectorStored with positions (or termVectorStored with positions and offsets),
    Parameters:
      `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
      `text` - the text to tokenize and index.
      `analyzer` - the analyzer to use for tokenization

  - ### fromDocument

    public static MemoryIndex fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer)
    Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
    Parameters:
      `document` - the document to index
      `analyzer` - the analyzer to use
    Returns:
      a MemoryIndex

  - ### fromDocument

    public static MemoryIndex fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer, boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads)
    Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
    Parameters:
      `document` - the document to index
      `analyzer` - the analyzer to use
      `storeOffsets` - `true` if offsets should be stored
      `storePayloads` - `true` if payloads should be stored
    Returns:
      a MemoryIndex

  - ### fromDocument

    public static MemoryIndex fromDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document, Analyzer analyzer, boolean storeOffsets, boolean storePayloads, long maxReusedBytes)
    Builds a MemoryIndex from a lucene `Document` using an analyzer
    Parameters:
      `document` - the document to index
      `analyzer` - the analyzer to use
      `storeOffsets` - `true` if offsets should be stored
      `storePayloads` - `true` if payloads should be stored
      `maxReusedBytes` - the number of bytes that should remain in the internal memory pools after `reset()` is called
    Returns:
      a MemoryIndex

  - ### keywordTokenStream

    public <T> TokenStream keywordTokenStream(Collection<T> keywords)
    Convenience method; Creates and returns a token stream that generates a token for each keyword in the given collection, "as is", without any transforming text analysis. The resulting token stream can be fed into `addField(String, TokenStream)`, perhaps wrapped into another `TokenFilter`, as desired.
    Parameters:
      `keywords` - the keywords to generate tokens for
    Returns:
      the corresponding token stream

  - ### addField

    public void addField(IndexableField field, Analyzer analyzer)
    Adds a lucene `IndexableField` to the MemoryIndex using the provided analyzer. Also stores doc values based on `IndexableFieldType.docValuesType()` if set.
    Parameters:
      `field` - the field to add
      `analyzer` - the analyzer to use for term analysis

  - ### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream)
    Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`. Finally closes the token stream. Note that untokenized keywords can be added with this method via `keywordTokenStream(Collection)`, the Lucene `KeywordTokenizer` or similar utilities.
    Parameters:
      `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
      `stream` - the token stream to retrieve tokens from.

  - ### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream, int positionIncrementGap)
    Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`. Finally closes the token stream. Note that untokenized keywords can be added with this method via `keywordTokenStream(Collection)`, the Lucene `KeywordTokenizer` or similar utilities.
    Parameters:
      `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
      `stream` - the token stream to retrieve tokens from.
      `positionIncrementGap` - the position increment gap if fields with the same name are added more than once

  - ### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName, TokenStream tokenStream, int positionIncrementGap, int offsetGap)
    Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`. Finally closes the token stream. Note that untokenized keywords can be added with this method via `keywordTokenStream(Collection)`, the Lucene `KeywordTokenizer` or similar utilities.
    Parameters:
      `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
      `tokenStream` - the token stream to retrieve tokens from. It's guaranteed to be closed no matter what.
      `positionIncrementGap` - the position increment gap if fields with the same name are added more than once
      `offsetGap` - the offset gap if fields with the same name are added more than once

  - ### setSimilarity

    public void setSimilarity(Similarity similarity)
    Set the Similarity to be used for calculating field norms
    Parameters:
      `similarity` - instance with custom `Similarity.computeNorm(org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInvertState)` implementation

  - ### createSearcher

    public IndexSearcher createSearcher()
    Creates and returns a searcher that can be used to execute arbitrary Lucene queries and to collect the resulting query results as hits.
    Returns:
      a searcher

  - ### freeze

    public void freeze()
    Prepares the MemoryIndex for querying in a non-lazy way.

    After calling this you can query the MemoryIndex from multiple threads, but you cannot subsequently add new data.

  - ### search

    public float search(Query query)
    Convenience method that efficiently returns the relevance score by matching this index against the given Lucene query expression.
    Parameters:
      `query` - an arbitrary Lucene query to run against this index
    Returns:
      the relevance score of the matchmaking; A number in the range [0.0 .. 1.0], with 0.0 indicating no match. The higher the number the better the match.

  - ### toStringDebug

    public String toStringDebug()
    Returns a String representation of the index data for debugging purposes.
    Returns:
      the string representation
    WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

  - ### reset

    public void reset()
    Resets the `MemoryIndex` to its initial state and recycles all internal buffers.