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Estimating RAM Requirements for Indexing Documents

TLDR Epi asked about index sizes in relation to document sizes and RAM requirements for their dataset. Kishore Nallan suggested indexing a sample and extrapolating results, and confirmed suitability for indexing large documents like Wikipedia articles in Typesense.

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Dec 04, 2022 (12 months ago)

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Epi

03:06 AM

How large are indexes relative to document sizes, on average (for plain english documents, >5k tokens per document)? Are there benchmarks for such a scenario, or any anecdotal data?

I'm trying to figure out the RAM requirements for my dataset, which is let's say (for example) 10M-100M documents ranging from 5k to 50k tokens per document.

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Kishore Nallan

11:28 AM

It's difficult to answer this because everything depends on the shape of the data. Repetitive tokens compress well due to the inverted index used for search. I recommend indexing a sample of 1M documents and extrapolating that for the full dataset.

Dec 05, 2022 (12 months ago)

Epi

04:15 PM

How well would Typesense work for a dataset like Wikipedia articles?

Dec 06, 2022 (12 months ago)

Kishore Nallan

02:55 AM

We do have several people who index large documents into Typesense.

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