Comment by n_u
10 days ago
Ah interesting. Is your keyword-document map (aka term dict) too big to keep in memory permanently? My understanding is that at Google they just keep it in memory on every replica.
Edit: I should specify they shard the corpus by document so there isn't a replica with the entire term dict on it.
Could plausibly fit in RAM, is only like ~100 GB in total. We'll see, will probably keep it mmap:ed at first to see what happens. It isn't the target of very many queries (relatively speaking) at any rate so either way is probably fine.
>It isn't the target of very many queries (relatively speaking)
Wow why is that? Do you use a vector index primarily?
No I mean for every query there is mapping up keywords to trees of documents, there is dozens if not hundreds of queries in the latter in order to intersect document lists.
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