MemoryIndex (Lucene 2.4.1 API)
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## org.apache.lucene.index.memory
Class MemoryIndex

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.index.memory.MemoryIndex

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable

    public class MemoryIndex

extends Object
implements Serializable

High-performance single-document main memory Apache Lucene fulltext search index.

#### Overview

This class is a replacement/substitute for a large subset of `RAMDirectory` functionality. It is designed to enable maximum efficiency for on-the-fly matchmaking combining structured and fuzzy fulltext search in realtime streaming applications such as Nux XQuery based XML message queues, publish-subscribe systems for Blogs/newsfeeds, text chat, data acquisition and distribution systems, application level routers, firewalls, classifiers, etc. Rather than targetting fulltext search of infrequent queries over huge persistent data archives (historic search), this class targets fulltext search of huge numbers of queries over comparatively small transient realtime data (prospective search). For example as in

     float score = search(String text, Query query)

Each instance can hold at most one Lucene "document", with a document containing zero or more "fields", each field having a name and a fulltext value. The fulltext value is tokenized (split and transformed) into zero or more index terms (aka words) on `addField()`, according to the policy implemented by an Analyzer. For example, Lucene analyzers can split on whitespace, normalize to lower case for case insensitivity, ignore common terms with little discriminatory value such as "he", "in", "and" (stop words), reduce the terms to their natural linguistic root form such as "fishing" being reduced to "fish" (stemming), resolve synonyms/inflexions/thesauri (upon indexing and/or querying), etc. For details, see Lucene Analyzer Intro.

Arbitrary Lucene queries can be run against this class - see Lucene Query Syntax as well as Query Parser Rules. Note that a Lucene query selects on the field names and associated (indexed) tokenized terms, not on the original fulltext(s) - the latter are not stored but rather thrown away immediately after tokenization.

For some interesting background information on search technology, see Bob Wyman's Prospective Search, Jim Gray's A Call to Arms - Custom subscriptions, and Tim Bray's On Search, the Series.

#### Example Usage

     Analyzer analyzer = PatternAnalyzer.DEFAULT_ANALYZER;
     //Analyzer analyzer = new SimpleAnalyzer();
     MemoryIndex index = new MemoryIndex();
     index.addField("content", "Readings about Salmons and other select Alaska fishing Manuals", analyzer);
     index.addField("author", "Tales of James", analyzer);
     QueryParser parser = new QueryParser("content", analyzer);
     float score = index.search(parser.parse("+author:james +salmon~ +fish* manual~"));
     if (score > 0.0f) {
         System.out.println("it's a match");
     } else {
         System.out.println("no match found");
     }
     System.out.println("indexData=" + index.toString());

#### Example XQuery Usage

     (: An XQuery that finds all books authored by James that have something to do with "salmon fishing manuals", sorted by relevance :)
     declare namespace lucene = "java:nux.xom.pool.FullTextUtil";
     declare variable $query := "+salmon~ +fish* manual~"; (: any arbitrary Lucene query can go here :)

     for $book in /books/book[author="James" and lucene:match(abstract, $query) > 0.0]
     let $score := lucene:match($book/abstract, $query)
     order by $score descending
     return $book

#### No thread safety guarantees

An instance can be queried multiple times with the same or different queries, but an instance is not thread-safe. If desired use idioms such as:

     MemoryIndex index = ...
     synchronized (index) {
        // read and/or write index (i.e. add fields and/or query)
     }

#### Performance Notes

Internally there's a new data structure geared towards efficient indexing and searching, plus the necessary support code to seamlessly plug into the Lucene framework.

This class performs very well for very small texts (e.g. 10 chars) as well as for large texts (e.g. 10 MB) and everything in between. Typically, it is about 10-100 times faster than `RAMDirectory`. Note that `RAMDirectory` has particularly large efficiency overheads for small to medium sized texts, both in time and space. Indexing a field with N tokens takes O(N) in the best case, and O(N logN) in the worst case. Memory consumption is probably larger than for `RAMDirectory`.

Example throughput of many simple term queries over a single MemoryIndex: ~500000 queries/sec on a MacBook Pro, jdk 1.5.0_06, server VM. As always, your mileage may vary.

If you're curious about the whereabouts of bottlenecks, run java 1.5 with the non-perturbing '-server -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples,depth=10' flags, then study the trace log and correlate its hotspot trailer with its call stack headers (see hprof tracing ).

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
`MemoryIndex()` Constructs an empty instance.

Method Summary
`void` | `addField(String fieldName, String text, Analyzer analyzer)` Convenience method; Tokenizes the given field text and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding an indexed non-keyword Lucene `Field` that is `tokenized`, `not stored`, `termVectorStored with positions` (or `termVectorStored with positions and offsets`),
`void` | `addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream)` Equivalent to `addField(fieldName, stream, 1.0f)`.
`void` | `addField(String fieldName, TokenStream stream, float boost)` Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`.
`IndexSearcher` | `createSearcher()` Creates and returns a searcher that can be used to execute arbitrary Lucene queries and to collect the resulting query results as hits.
`int` | `getMemorySize()` Returns a reasonable approximation of the main memory [bytes] consumed by this instance.
`TokenStream` | `keywordTokenStream(Collection keywords)` Convenience method; Creates and returns a token stream that generates a token for each keyword in the given collection, "as is", without any transforming text analysis.
`float` | `search(Query query)` Convenience method that efficiently returns the relevance score by matching this index against the given Lucene query expression.
`String` | `toString()` Returns a String representation of the index data for debugging purposes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### MemoryIndex

    public MemoryIndex()

  Constructs an empty instance.

Method Detail

### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName,
                         String text,
                         Analyzer analyzer)

  Convenience method; Tokenizes the given field text and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding an indexed non-keyword Lucene `Field` that is `tokenized`, `not stored`, `termVectorStored with positions` (or `termVectorStored with positions and offsets`),

  Parameters:
    `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
    `text` - the text to tokenize and index.
    `analyzer` - the analyzer to use for tokenization

### keywordTokenStream

    public TokenStream keywordTokenStream(Collection keywords)

  Convenience method; Creates and returns a token stream that generates a token for each keyword in the given collection, "as is", without any transforming text analysis. The resulting token stream can be fed into `addField(String, TokenStream)`, perhaps wrapped into another `TokenFilter`, as desired.

  Parameters:
    `keywords` - the keywords to generate tokens for
  Returns:
    the corresponding token stream

### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName,
                         TokenStream stream)

  Equivalent to `addField(fieldName, stream, 1.0f)`.

  Parameters:
    `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
    `stream` - the token stream to retrieve tokens from

### addField

    public void addField(String fieldName,
                         TokenStream stream,
                         float boost)

  Iterates over the given token stream and adds the resulting terms to the index; Equivalent to adding a tokenized, indexed, termVectorStored, unstored, Lucene `Field`. Finally closes the token stream. Note that untokenized keywords can be added with this method via `keywordTokenStream(Collection)`, the Lucene contrib `KeywordTokenizer` or similar utilities.

  Parameters:
    `fieldName` - a name to be associated with the text
    `stream` - the token stream to retrieve tokens from.
    `boost` - the boost factor for hits for this field
  See Also:
    `AbstractField.setBoost(float)`

### createSearcher

    public IndexSearcher createSearcher()

  Creates and returns a searcher that can be used to execute arbitrary Lucene queries and to collect the resulting query results as hits.

  Returns:
    a searcher

### search

    public float search(Query query)

  Convenience method that efficiently returns the relevance score by matching this index against the given Lucene query expression.

  Parameters:
    `query` - an arbitrary Lucene query to run against this index
  Returns:
    the relevance score of the matchmaking; A number in the range [0.0 .. 1.0], with 0.0 indicating no match. The higher the number the better the match.
  See Also:
    `QueryParser.parse(String)`

### getMemorySize

    public int getMemorySize()

  Returns a reasonable approximation of the main memory [bytes] consumed by this instance. Useful for smart memory sensititive caches/pools. Assumes fieldNames are interned, whereas tokenized terms are memory-overlaid.

  Returns:
    the main memory consumption

### toString

    public String toString()

  Returns a String representation of the index data for debugging purposes.

  Overrides:
    `toString` in class `Object`
  Returns:
    the string representation

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