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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-7878

Use SortedNumericDocValues (efficient sort & facet on multi-valued numeric fields)

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • Facet Module
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      Lucene has a SortedNumericDocValues (i.e. multi-valued numeric DocValues), ever since late in the 4x versions. Solr's TrieField.createFields unfortunately still uses SortedSetDocValues for the multi-valued case. SortedNumericDocValues is more efficient than SortedSetDocValues; for example there is no 'ordinal' mapping for sorting/faceting needed.

      Unfortunately, updating Solr here would be quite a bit of work, since there are backwards-compatibility concerns, and faceting code would need a new code path implementation just for this. Sorting is relatively simple thanks to SortedNumericSortField, and today multi-valued sorting isn't directly possible.

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              dsmiley David Smiley
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