Hi,
We have a piece of code which uses RangeFilter for a numeric field. (Changing it to NumericRangeFilter now).
We also do sorting on the same numeric field. So probably it gets converted to a NumericRangeFilter.
eg rangeFilter:
{
"range" : {
"postDateTime" : {
"from" : 0,
"to" : 120,
"include_lower" : false,
"include_upper" : false
}
}
Q1:
Does this RangeFilter automatically get converted to a NumericRangeFilter?
(asking so, because of the number of instances of NumericRangeFilter in the memory profile of ES)
Q2:
I had a question about caching part of this filter.
Since RageFilters are cached automatically, even if it gets converted to NumericRangeFilter, will it still be cached?
Q3:
Assuming it gets cached.
Even if it is not cached, I still want to ask this question for the case where the above range filter does not get converted to a numeric filter.
How will the filter cache size grow with changing "to" values in the above filter.?
Assume that there are 100 docs in the index.
First range filter results in 50 docs.
Second range filter (with a different "to" value, say 125) results in 51 docs. Out of which, previous 50 are common.
Will the cache structure be like:
key1 -> bitset1
key2 -> bitset2
Where key1 is of the form : 0-120. And key2 is of the form: 0-125.
Where both bitset1 and bitset2 are of size 100.
Q4: Is there any optimization on number of these filter instances.
For eg, if a new range filter is to be executed whose range is 0-122, Will it go as a new cache key and value containing a new bitset? Or, this rangeFilter will be considered as a "cache-hit"?
Q5:
For the case where every query fired has a different "to" value of the rangeFilter, can we say that cache hit rate will be very low and it is not useful to cache this?
Q5:
Considering the case, where the field postDateTime is also used for sorting, so it is available in the field cache.
Which will be faster?
Using RangeFilter with cache set as false (Fetch from Trie based index) OR using NumericRangeFilter (Passing through all docs)?
Obviously, if the rangeFilter fetches the DocIdPostingList from the disk it will be slow compared to field cache available for NumericRangeFilter - but is that the case?
Q6:
If a NumericRangeFilter is ANDed or ORed with other filter, say a TermFilter. What will be the execution of the filters. Will the TermFilter be always executed before the NumericRangeFilter, as the Docs to pass through will be less in this case.
Thanks for your patience - if you reached this far 
-Aditya.
