IOQP: A simple Impact-Ordered Query Processor written in Rust

Abstract

Impact-ordered index organizations are suited to score-at-a-time query evaluation strategies. A key advantage of score-at-a-time processing is that query latency can be tightly controlled, leading to lower tail latency and less latency variance overall. While score-at-a-time evaluation strategies have been explored in the literature, there is currently only one notable system that promotes impact-ordered indexing and efficient score-at-a-time query processing. In this paper, we propose an alternative implementation of score-at-a-time retrieval over impact-ordered indexes in the Rust programming language. We detail the efficiency-effectiveness characteristics of our implementation through a range of experiments on two test collections. Our results demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed model in terms of both single-threaded latency, and multi-threaded throughput capability. We make our system publicly available to benefit the community and to promote further research in efficient impact-ordered query processing.

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In Proceedings of DESIRES 2022
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