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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-10993

lots of empty highlight entries

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 6.6
    • None
    • highlighter
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    Description

      I have indexed documents with lots of different text fields representing different properties in Solr (version 6.6). Those text fields are indexed with storeOffsetsWithPositions=true and termVectors=true to speed up highlighting using the UnifiedHighlighter.

      During a search, i would like to highlight those properties and I have set hl.fl to wildcard match all properties. Everything is working fine, except that the responses are huge.

      Every document only has a small set of properties (let's say 10 in total, with 1-2 matching ones), but Solr returns in the highlighting section, a dictionary with every possible property (about 10k) for every item. Nearly all of the entries are empty, but decoding the keys of the map takes a considerable amount of time.

      In fact, the time spent decoding this unnecessary entries is enormous. Solr takes about 174ms for the search + encoding (i expect that the timing could be much better) and decoding the response in Go (using the default JSON package from the standard library) takes 695ms.

      I guess the offending line is somewhere around:
      https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/master/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/highlight/UnifiedSolrHighlighter.java#L175

      Why is Solr generating map entries for missing values in the first place?

      The question had been posted on stackoverflow before:
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44846220/solr-huge-and-slow-highlighting-response-with-mostly-empty-fields

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              tux21b Christoph Hack
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