Heliosearch’s off-heap FieldCache was previously introduced and benchmarked for integer fields. Support for all numeric field types as well as string fields has now been completed, and this post will focus on the performance of string fields. A review of … Continued
nCache Heliosearch has a new replacement for the Lucene FieldCache currently used by Solr for sorting, faceting, and function queries. Introducing nCache (n is for “native”): nCache has Off-Heap Data-structures, just like the Off-Heap Filters to lower garbage collection … Continued
Off-Heap Native Filters is the first feature we added to Heliosearch, a new open source project designed to bring Solr performance to the next level. Big JVM heaps can be Big Trouble JVMs have never been good at dealing with … Continued
Heliosearch – The Next Solr Project Heliosearch is about creating the next major evolution of Solr. To kick things off, I’ve started a project on github and implemented “off-heap” filters, as a first step toward taking performance to the next … Continued
