[NUTCH-656] DeleteDuplicates based on crawlDB only

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: indexer
• Assignee: Julien Nioche
• Reporter: Julien Nioche
• Created: 09/Oct/08 08:35
• Updated: 28/Jan/21 14:03
• Resolved: 14/Nov/13 11:56

Description

The existing dedup functionality relies on Lucene indices and can't be used when the indexing is delegated to SOLR.
I was wondering whether we could use the information from the crawlDB instead to detect URLs to delete then do the deletions in an indexer-neutral way. As far as I understand the content of the crawlDB contains all the elements we need for dedup, namely :

• URL
• signature
• fetch time
• score

In map-reduce terms we would have two different jobs :

• read crawlDB and compare on URLs : keep only most recent element - oldest are stored in a file and will be deleted later

• read crawlDB and have a map function generating signatures as keys and URL + fetch time +score as value
• reduce function would depend on which parameter is set (i.e. use signature or score) and would output as list of URLs to delete

This assumes that we can then use the URLs to identify documents in the indices.

Any thoughts on this? Am I missing something?

Julien

Issue Links

• relates to: NUTCH-1324 DupeDB for Nutch
• relates to: NUTCH-1047 Pluggable indexing backends
• relates to: NUTCH-1688 Port DeleteDuplicate based on crawlDB only to 2.x