Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 45134 invoked from network); 17 May 2004 21:35:11 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 17 May 2004 21:35:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 61209 invoked by uid 500); 17 May 2004 21:35:36 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 61164 invoked by uid 500); 17 May 2004 21:35:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Developers List" Reply-To: "Lucene Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 61144 invoked by uid 98); 17 May 2004 21:35:35 -0000 Received: from cutting@apache.org by hermes.apache.org by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamuko: 0.70. Clear:RC:0(209.10.110.95):. Processed in 0.177785 secs); 17 May 2004 21:35:35 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: cutting@apache.org via hermes.apache.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:0(209.10.110.95):. Processed in 0.177785 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO londo.swishmail.com) (209.10.110.95) by hermes.apache.org with SMTP; 17 May 2004 21:35:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 33619 invoked by uid 89); 17 May 2004 21:35:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO apache.org) (doug@cottrell-cutting.net@67.169.169.83) by londo.swishmail.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 17 May 2004 21:35:01 -0000 Message-ID: <40A92FFC.30509@apache.org> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:34:52 -0700 From: Doug Cutting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: "UnStored" vs "Reader" References: <00bb01c43a6b$cb754b30$8d01a8c0@india.aalayance.com> <0123A81D-A6E1-11D8-9D49-000393A564E6@ehatchersolutions.com> <00d701c43afc$8a1ca840$8d01a8c0@india.aalayance.com> In-Reply-To: <00d701c43afc$8a1ca840$8d01a8c0@india.aalayance.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: hermes.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N jitender ahuja wrote: > If there is no difference then is there an underlying basic difference > or just a simple redundancy (both types performing the same job) is there? I > feel that it cann't be a simple redundancy. For unstored fields, Lucene only requires sequential access to the characters. A Reader permits data to be streamed into the index: the entire text need never be held in memory at once. For application convenience and consistency with stored fields, one can also provide strings for unstored field values. Doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: lucene-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: lucene-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org