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by pi_22by7 220 days ago
The key insight about bloom filters lacking synergy is excellent. The ~7K document crossover point makes sense because inverted indexes amortize dictionary storage across all documents while bloom filters must encode it linearly per document
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But doesn’t that depend on the cardinality of the indexes versus the document count? I’ve seen systems with a stupid number of tag values.