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483: Enhance matching words r=Kerollmops a=ManyTheFish # Summary Enhance milli word-matcher making it handle match computing and cropping. # Implementation ## Computing best matches for cropping Before we were considering that the first match of the attribute was the best one, this was accurate when only one word was searched but was missing the target when more than one word was searched. Now we are searching for the best matches interval to crop around, the chosen interval is the one: 1) that have the highest count of unique matches > for example, if we have a query `split the world`, then the interval `the split the split the` has 5 matches but only 2 unique matches (1 for `split` and 1 for `the`) where the interval `split of the world` has 3 matches and 3 unique matches. So the interval `split of the world` is considered better. 2) that have the minimum distance between matches > for example, if we have a query `split the world`, then the interval `split of the world` has a distance of 3 (2 between `split` and `the`, and 1 between `the` and `world`) where the interval `split the world` has a distance of 2. So the interval `split the world` is considered better. 3) that have the highest count of ordered matches > for example, if we have a query `split the world`, then the interval `the world split` has 2 ordered words where the interval `split the world` has 3. So the interval `split the world` is considered better. ## Cropping around the best matches interval Before we were cropping around the interval without checking the context. Now we are cropping around words in the same context as matching words. This means that we will keep words that are farther from the matching words but are in the same phrase, than words that are nearer but separated by a dot. > For instance, for the matching word `Split` the text: `Natalie risk her future. Split The World is a book written by Emily Henry. I never read it.` will be cropped like: `…. Split The World is a book written by Emily Henry. …` and not like: `Natalie risk her future. Split The World is a book …` Co-authored-by: ManyTheFish <many@meilisearch.com>
a concurrent indexer combined with fast and relevant search algorithms
Introduction
This repository contains the core engine used in Meilisearch.
It contains a library that can manage one and only one index. Meilisearch manages the multi-index itself. Milli is unable to store updates in a store: it is the job of something else above and this is why it is only able to process one update at a time.
This repository contains crates to quickly debug the engine:
- There are benchmarks located in the
benchmarkscrate. - The
http-uicrate is a simple HTTP dashboard to tests the features like for real! - The
infoscrate is used to dump the internal data-structure and ensure correctness. - The
searchcrate is a simple command-line that helps run flamegraph on top of it. - The
helperscrate is only used to modify the database inplace, sometimes.
Compile and run the HTTP debug server
You can specify the number of threads to use to index documents and many other settings too.
cd http-ui
cargo run --release -- --db my-database.mdb -vvv --indexing-jobs 8
Index your documents
It can index a massive amount of documents in not much time, I already achieved to index:
- 115m songs (song and artist name) in ~48min and take 81GiB on disk.
- 12m cities (name, timezone and country ID) in ~4min and take 6GiB on disk.
These metrics are done on a MacBook Pro with the M1 processor.
You can feed the engine with your CSV (comma-separated, yes) data like this:
printf "id,name,age\n1,hello,32\n2,kiki,24\n" | http POST 127.0.0.1:9700/documents content-type:text/csv
Don't forget to specify the id of the documents. Also, note that it supports JSON and JSON
streaming: you can send them to the engine by using the content-type:application/json and
content-type:application/x-ndjson headers respectively.
Querying the engine via the website
You can query the engine by going to the HTML page itself.
Contributing
You can setup a git-hook to stop you from making a commit too fast. It'll stop you if:
- Any of the workspaces does not build
- Your code is not well-formatted
These two things are also checked in the CI, so ignoring the hook won't help you merge your code.
But if you need to, you can still add --no-verify when creating your commit to ignore the hook.
To enable the hook, run the following command from the root of the project:
cp script/pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit