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If these versions are to remain * compatible with Apache Lucene, then a language-independent definition of the * Lucene index format is required. This document thus attempts to provide a * complete and independent definition of the Apache Lucene file formats.</p> * <p>As Lucene evolves, this document should evolve. Versions of Lucene in * different programming languages should endeavor to agree on file formats, and * generate new versions of this document.</p> * </div> * <a name="Definitions"></a> * <h2>Definitions</h2> * <div> * <p>The fundamental concepts in Lucene are index, document, field and term.</p> * <p>An index contains a sequence of documents.</p> * <ul> * <li>A document is a sequence of fields.</li> * <li>A field is a named sequence of terms.</li> * <li>A term is a sequence of bytes.</li> * </ul> * <p>The same sequence of bytes in two different fields is considered a different * term. Thus terms are represented as a pair: the string naming the field, and the * bytes within the field.</p> * <a name="Inverted_Indexing"></a> * <h3>Inverted Indexing</h3> * <p>The index stores statistics about terms in order to make term-based search * more efficient. Lucene's index falls into the family of indexes known as an * <i>inverted index.</i> This is because it can list, for a term, the documents * that contain it. This is the inverse of the natural relationship, in which * documents list terms.</p> * <a name="Types_of_Fields"></a> * <h3>Types of Fields</h3> * <p>In Lucene, fields may be <i>stored</i>, in which case their text is stored * in the index literally, in a non-inverted manner. Fields that are inverted are * called <i>indexed</i>. A field may be both stored and indexed.</p> * <p>The text of a field may be <i>tokenized</i> into terms to be indexed, or the * text of a field may be used literally as a term to be indexed. Most fields are * tokenized, but sometimes it is useful for certain identifier fields to be * indexed literally.</p> * <p>See the {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field Field} * java docs for more information on Fields.</p> * <a name="Segments"></a> * <h3>Segments</h3> * <p>Lucene indexes may be composed of multiple sub-indexes, or <i>segments</i>. * Each segment is a fully independent index, which could be searched separately. * Indexes evolve by:</p> * <ol> * <li>Creating new segments for newly added documents.</li> * <li>Merging existing segments.</li> * </ol> * <p>Searches may involve multiple segments and/or multiple indexes, each index * potentially composed of a set of segments.</p> * <a name="Document_Numbers"></a> * <h3>Document Numbers</h3> * <p>Internally, Lucene refers to documents by an integer <i>document number</i>. * The first document added to an index is numbered zero, and each subsequent * document added gets a number one greater than the previous.</p> * <p>Note that a document's number may change, so caution should be taken when * storing these numbers outside of Lucene. In particular, numbers may change in * the following situations:</p> * <ul> * <li> * <p>The numbers stored in each segment are unique only within the segment, and * must be converted before they can be used in a larger context. The standard * technique is to allocate each segment a range of values, based on the range of * numbers used in that segment. To convert a document number from a segment to an * external value, the segment's <i>base</i> document number is added. To convert * an external value back to a segment-specific value, the segment is identified * by the range that the external value is in, and the segment's base value is * subtracted. For example two five document segments might be combined, so that * the first segment has a base value of zero, and the second of five. Document * three from the second segment would have an external value of eight.</p> * </li> * <li> * <p>When documents are deleted, gaps are created in the numbering. These are * eventually removed as the index evolves through merging. Deleted documents are * dropped when segments are merged. A freshly-merged segment thus has no gaps in * its numbering.</p> * </li> * </ul> * </div> * <a name="Overview"></a> * <h2>Index Structure Overview</h2> * <div> * <p>Each segment index maintains the following:</p> * <ul> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene62.Lucene62SegmentInfoFormat Segment info}. * This contains metadata about a segment, such as the number of documents, * what files it uses, * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50FieldInfosFormat Field names}. * This contains the set of field names used in the index. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50StoredFieldsFormat Stored Field values}. * This contains, for each document, a list of attribute-value pairs, where the attributes * are field names. These are used to store auxiliary information about the document, such as * its title, url, or an identifier to access a database. The set of stored fields are what is * returned for each hit when searching. This is keyed by document number. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Term dictionary}. * A dictionary containing all of the terms used in all of the * indexed fields of all of the documents. The dictionary also contains the number * of documents which contain the term, and pointers to the term's frequency and * proximity data. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Term Frequency data}. * For each term in the dictionary, the numbers of all the * documents that contain that term, and the frequency of the term in that * document, unless frequencies are omitted (IndexOptions.DOCS_ONLY) * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Term Proximity data}. * For each term in the dictionary, the positions that the * term occurs in each document. Note that this will not exist if all fields in * all documents omit position data. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene53.Lucene53NormsFormat Normalization factors}. * For each field in each document, a value is stored * that is multiplied into the score for hits on that field. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50TermVectorsFormat Term Vectors}. * For each field in each document, the term vector (sometimes * called document vector) may be stored. A term vector consists of term text and * term frequency. To add Term Vectors to your index see the * {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field Field} constructors * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54.Lucene54DocValuesFormat Per-document values}. * Like stored values, these are also keyed by document * number, but are generally intended to be loaded into main memory for fast * access. Whereas stored values are generally intended for summary results from * searches, per-document values are useful for things like scoring factors. * </li> * <li> * {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50LiveDocsFormat Live documents}. * An optional file indicating which documents are live. * </li> * </ul> * <p>Details on each of these are provided in their linked pages.</p> * </div> * <a name="File_Naming"></a> * <h2>File Naming</h2> * <div> * <p>All files belonging to a segment have the same name with varying extensions. * The extensions correspond to the different file formats described below. When * using the Compound File format (default in 1.4 and greater) these files (except * for the Segment info file, the Lock file, and Deleted documents file) are collapsed * into a single .cfs file (see below for details)</p> * <p>Typically, all segments in an index are stored in a single directory, * although this is not required.</p> * <p>As of version 2.1 (lock-less commits), file names are never re-used. * That is, when any file is saved * to the Directory it is given a never before used filename. This is achieved * using a simple generations approach. For example, the first segments file is * segments_1, then segments_2, etc. The generation is a sequential long integer * represented in alpha-numeric (base 36) form.</p> * </div> * <a name="file-names"></a> * <h2>Summary of File Extensions</h2> * <div> * <p>The following table summarizes the names and extensions of the files in * Lucene:</p> * <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" summary="lucene filenames by extension"> * <tr> * <th>Name</th> * <th>Extension</th> * <th>Brief Description</th> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos Segments File}</td> * <td>segments_N</td> * <td>Stores information about a commit point</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td><a href="#Lock_File">Lock File</a></td> * <td>write.lock</td> * <td>The Write lock prevents multiple IndexWriters from writing to the same * file.</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene62.Lucene62SegmentInfoFormat Segment Info}</td> * <td>.si</td> * <td>Stores metadata about a segment</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50CompoundFormat Compound File}</td> * <td>.cfs, .cfe</td> * <td>An optional "virtual" file consisting of all the other index files for * systems that frequently run out of file handles.</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50FieldInfosFormat Fields}</td> * <td>.fnm</td> * <td>Stores information about the fields</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50StoredFieldsFormat Field Index}</td> * <td>.fdx</td> * <td>Contains pointers to field data</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50StoredFieldsFormat Field Data}</td> * <td>.fdt</td> * <td>The stored fields for documents</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Term Dictionary}</td> * <td>.tim</td> * <td>The term dictionary, stores term info</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Term Index}</td> * <td>.tip</td> * <td>The index into the Term Dictionary</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Frequencies}</td> * <td>.doc</td> * <td>Contains the list of docs which contain each term along with frequency</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Positions}</td> * <td>.pos</td> * <td>Stores position information about where a term occurs in the index</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50PostingsFormat Payloads}</td> * <td>.pay</td> * <td>Stores additional per-position metadata information such as character offsets and user payloads</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene53.Lucene53NormsFormat Norms}</td> * <td>.nvd, .nvm</td> * <td>Encodes length and boost factors for docs and fields</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54.Lucene54DocValuesFormat Per-Document Values}</td> * <td>.dvd, .dvm</td> * <td>Encodes additional scoring factors or other per-document information.</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50TermVectorsFormat Term Vector Index}</td> * <td>.tvx</td> * <td>Stores offset into the document data file</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50TermVectorsFormat Term Vector Documents}</td> * <td>.tvd</td> * <td>Contains information about each document that has term vectors</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50TermVectorsFormat Term Vector Fields}</td> * <td>.tvf</td> * <td>The field level info about term vectors</td> * </tr> * <tr> * <td>{@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50.Lucene50LiveDocsFormat Live Documents}</td> * <td>.liv</td> * <td>Info about what files are live</td> * </tr> * </table> * </div> * <a name="Lock_File"></a> * <h2>Lock File</h2> * The write lock, which is stored in the index directory by default, is named * "write.lock". If the lock directory is different from the index directory then * the write lock will be named "XXXX-write.lock" where XXXX is a unique prefix * derived from the full path to the index directory. When this file is present, a * writer is currently modifying the index (adding or removing documents). This * lock file ensures that only one writer is modifying the index at a time. * <a name="History"></a> * <h2>History</h2> * <p>Compatibility notes are provided in this document, describing how file * formats have changed from prior versions:</p> * <ul> * <li>In version 2.1, the file format was changed to allow lock-less commits (ie, * no more commit lock). The change is fully backwards compatible: you can open a * pre-2.1 index for searching or adding/deleting of docs. When the new segments * file is saved (committed), it will be written in the new file format (meaning * no specific "upgrade" process is needed). But note that once a commit has * occurred, pre-2.1 Lucene will not be able to read the index.</li> * <li>In version 2.3, the file format was changed to allow segments to share a * single set of doc store (vectors & stored fields) files. This allows for * faster indexing in certain cases. The change is fully backwards compatible (in * the same way as the lock-less commits change in 2.1).</li> * <li>In version 2.4, Strings are now written as true UTF-8 byte sequence, not * Java's modified UTF-8. See <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-510"> * LUCENE-510</a> for details.</li> * <li>In version 2.9, an optional opaque Map<String,String> CommitUserData * may be passed to IndexWriter's commit methods (and later retrieved), which is * recorded in the segments_N file. See <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1382"> * LUCENE-1382</a> for details. Also, * diagnostics were added to each segment written recording details about why it * was written (due to flush, merge; which OS/JRE was used; etc.). See issue * <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1654">LUCENE-1654</a> for details.</li> * <li>In version 3.0, compressed fields are no longer written to the index (they * can still be read, but on merge the new segment will write them, uncompressed). * See issue <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1960">LUCENE-1960</a> * for details.</li> * <li>In version 3.1, segments records the code version that created them. See * <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2720">LUCENE-2720</a> for details. * Additionally segments track explicitly whether or not they have term vectors. * See <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2811">LUCENE-2811</a> * for details.</li> * <li>In version 3.2, numeric fields are written as natively to stored fields * file, previously they were stored in text format only.</li> * <li>In version 3.4, fields can omit position data while still indexing term * frequencies.</li> * <li>In version 4.0, the format of the inverted index became extensible via * the {@link org.apache.lucene.codecs.Codec Codec} api. Fast per-document storage * ({@code DocValues}) was introduced. Normalization factors need no longer be a * single byte, they can be any {@link org.apache.lucene.index.NumericDocValues NumericDocValues}. * Terms need not be unicode strings, they can be any byte sequence. Term offsets * can optionally be indexed into the postings lists. Payloads can be stored in the * term vectors.</li> * <li>In version 4.1, the format of the postings list changed to use either * of FOR compression or variable-byte encoding, depending upon the frequency * of the term. Terms appearing only once were changed to inline directly into * the term dictionary. Stored fields are compressed by default. </li> * <li>In version 4.2, term vectors are compressed by default. DocValues has * a new multi-valued type (SortedSet), that can be used for faceting/grouping/joining * on multi-valued fields.</li> * <li>In version 4.5, DocValues were extended to explicitly represent missing values.</li> * <li>In version 4.6, FieldInfos were extended to support per-field DocValues generation, to * allow updating NumericDocValues fields.</li> * <li>In version 4.8, checksum footers were added to the end of each index file * for improved data integrity. Specifically, the last 8 bytes of every index file * contain the zlib-crc32 checksum of the file.</li> * <li>In version 4.9, DocValues has a new multi-valued numeric type (SortedNumeric) * that is suitable for faceting/sorting/analytics. * <li>In version 5.4, DocValues have been improved to store more information on disk: * addresses for binary fields and ord indexes for multi-valued fields. * </li> * </ul> * <a name="Limitations"></a> * <h2>Limitations</h2> * <div> * <p>Lucene uses a Java <code>int</code> to refer to * document numbers, and the index file format uses an <code>Int32</code> * on-disk to store document numbers. This is a limitation * of both the index file format and the current implementation. Eventually these * should be replaced with either <code>UInt64</code> values, or * better yet, {@link org.apache.lucene.store.DataOutput#writeVInt VInt} values which have no limit.</p> * </div> */ package org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54;