Major Description
Since we added codec-level compression in Lucene 4.1 I think I got about the same amount of users complaining that compression was too aggressive and that compression was too light.
I think it is due to the fact that we have users that are doing very different things with Lucene. For example if you have a small index that fits in the filesystem cache (or is close to), then you might never pay for actual disk seeks and in such a case the fact that the current stored fields format needs to over-decompress data can sensibly slow search down on cheap queries.
On the other hand, it is more and more common to use Lucene for things like log analytics, and in that case you have huge amounts of data for which you don't care much about stored fields performance. However it is very frustrating to notice that the data that you store takes several times less space when you gzip it compared to your index although Lucene claims to compress stored fields.
For that reason, I think it would be nice to have some kind of options that would allow to trade speed for compression in the default codec.
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- supercedes
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LUCENE-5046 Explore preset dictionaries for CompressingStoredFieldsFormat
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- Closed
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