solr garbage collection


nCache Heliosearch has a new replacement for the Lucene FieldCache currently used by Solr for sorting, faceting, and function queries.   Introducing nCache (n is for “native”): nCache has Off-Heap Data-structures, just like the Off-Heap Filters to lower garbage collection pauses and GC overhead. nCache is a managed cache, meaning […]

nCache: Heliosearch/Solr Off-Heap FieldCache


Off-Heap Native Filters is the first feature we added to Heliosearch, a new open source project designed to bring Solr performance to the next level. Big JVM heaps can be Big Trouble JVMs have never been good at dealing with large heaps. Large heaps mean lots of garbage collection work, […]

Heliosearch/Solr Off-Heap Filters