org.apache.lucene.codecs.compressing

Class CompressionMode

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.codecs.compressing.CompressionMode

public abstract class CompressionMode
extends Object

A compression mode. Tells how much effort should be spent on compression and decompression of stored fields.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static CompressionMode	FAST A compression mode that trades compression ratio for speed.
static CompressionMode	FAST_DECOMPRESSION This compression mode is similar to FAST but it spends more time compressing in order to improve the compression ratio.
static CompressionMode	HIGH_COMPRESSION A compression mode that trades speed for compression ratio.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	CompressionMode() Sole constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract Compressor	newCompressor() Create a new Compressor instance.
abstract Decompressor	newDecompressor() Create a new Decompressor instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

FAST

public static final CompressionMode FAST

A compression mode that trades compression ratio for speed. Although the compression ratio might remain high, compression and decompression are very fast. Use this mode with indices that have a high update rate but should be able to load documents from disk quickly.

HIGH_COMPRESSION

public static final CompressionMode HIGH_COMPRESSION

A compression mode that trades speed for compression ratio. Although compression and decompression might be slow, this compression mode should provide a good compression ratio. This mode might be interesting if/when your index size is much bigger than your OS cache.

FAST_DECOMPRESSION

public static final CompressionMode FAST_DECOMPRESSION

This compression mode is similar to FAST but it spends more time compressing in order to improve the compression ratio. This compression mode is best used with indices that have a low update rate but should be able to load documents from disk quickly.

Constructor Detail

CompressionMode

protected CompressionMode()

Sole constructor.

Method Detail

newCompressor

public abstract Compressor newCompressor()

Create a new Compressor instance.

newDecompressor

public abstract Decompressor newDecompressor()

Create a new Decompressor instance.