Index: contrib/queries/README.txt =================================================================== --- contrib/queries/README.txt (revision 723374) +++ contrib/queries/README.txt (working copy) @@ -1,10 +1,18 @@ This module contains a number of filter and query objects that add to core lucene. -The "MoreLikeThis" class from the "similarity" module has been copied into here. +==== TrieRangeFilter/TrieRangeQuery - This package provides fast numeric range queries/filters on long, +double or Date fields based on trie structures. Numerical values are stored in a special string-encoded +format with variable precision (all numerical values like doubles, longs, and timestamps are converted +to lexicographic sortable string representations). A range is then divided recursively into multiple +intervals for searching: The center of the range is searched only with the lowest possible precision +in the trie, the boundaries are matched more exactly. This reduces the number of terms and thus improves +dramatically the performance of range queries, on the cost of larger index sizes. + +==== MoreLikeThis - The "MoreLikeThis" class from the "similarity" module has been copied into here. If people are generally happy with this move then the similarity module can be deleted, or at least a "Moved to queries module..." note left in its place. -==== FuzzyLikeThis - mixes the behaviour of FuzzyQuery and MoreLikeThis but with special consideration +==== FuzzyLikeThis - mixes the behaviour of FuzzyQuery and MoreLikeThis but with special consideration of fuzzy scoring factors. This generally produces good results for queries where users may provide details in a number of fields and have no knowledge of boolean query syntax and also want a degree of fuzzy matching. The query is fast because, like MoreLikeThis, it optimizes the query to only the most distinguishing terms. @@ -13,15 +21,13 @@ Unlike the "NOT" clause, this still selects documents that contain undesirable terms, but reduces the overall score of docs containing these terms. - ==== TermsFilter - Unlike a RangeFilter this can be used for filtering on multiple terms that are not necessarily in a sequence. An example might be a collection of primary keys from a database query result or perhaps a choice of "category" labels picked by the end user. +Mark Harwood & Uwe Schindler +05/12/2008 -Mark Harwood -25/02/2006 -