Re: [389-devel] RFC: New Design: Fine Grained ID List Size

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On 09/09/2013 02:27 AM, Ludwig Krispenz wrote:

On 09/07/2013 05:02 AM, David Boreham wrote:
On 9/6/2013 8:49 PM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
This is a good idea, and it is something that we discussed briefly off-list. The only downside is that we need to change the index format to keep a count of ids for each key. Implementing this isn't a big problem, but it does mean that the existing indexes need to be updated to populate the count based off of the contents (as you mention above).

I don't think you need to do this (I certainly wasn't advocating doing so). The "statistics" state is much the same as that proposed in Rich's design. In fact you could probably just use that same information. My idea is more about where and how you use the information. All you need is something associated with each index that says "not much point looking here if you're after something specific, move along, look somewhere else instead". This is much the same information as "don't use a high scan limit here".


In the short term, we are looking for a way to be able to improve performance for specific search filters that are not possible to modify on the client side (for whatever reason) while leaving the index file format exactly as it is. I still feel that there is potentially great value in keeping a count of ids per key so we can optimize things on the server side automatically without the need for complex index configuration on the administrator's part. I think we should consider this for an additional future enhancement.

I'm saying the same thing. Keeping a cardinality count per key is way more than I'm proposing, and I'm not sure how useful that would be anyway, unless you want to do OLAP in the DS ;)
we have the cardinality of the key in old-idl and this makes some searches where parts of the filter are allids fast.

I'm late in the discussion, but I think Rich's proposal is very promising to address all the problems related to allids in new-idl.

We could then eventually rework filter ordering based on these configurations. Right now we only have a filter ordering based on index type and try to postpone "<=" or similar filter as they are known to be costly, but this could be more elaborate.

An alternative would be to have some kind of index lookup caching. In the example in ticket 47474 the filter is (&(|(objectClass=organizationalPerson)(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(objectClass=organization)(objectClass=organizationalUnit)(objectClass=groupOf Names)(objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(objectClass=group))(c3sUserID=EndUser0000078458))" and probably only the "c3sUserID=xxxxx" part will change, if we cache the result for the (&(|(objectClass=... part, even if it is expensive, it would be done only once.

Thanks everyone for the comments.  I have added Noriko's suggestion:
http://port389.org/wiki/Design/Fine_Grained_ID_List_Size

David, Ludwig: Does the current design address your concerns, and/or provide the necessary first step for further refinements?



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