I'm currently using the class org.apache.lucene.store.RAMDirectory
for a fast RAM-based index without the requirement of hard disk write permissions. RAM size & persistence is not a limiting factor. However, RAMDirectory
is marked as deprecated and also seems to be problematic for large indexes according to its API.
So my question is, what is a RAM-only alternative for the deprecated RAMDirectory
?
Anything writing on hard disk is out of the question for me (read only) & also seems to be quite a bit slower on my own systems. I was thinking about using FSDDirectory
with a RAMDisk but couldn't find a way to create said RAMDisk using java / the jar only (again requires changing the system).
ByteBuffersDirectory is the replacement for RAMDirectory
.
The chart below makes it crystal clear why RAMDiretory
was depreciated and then removed. BBDIR is ByteBuffersDirectory
and RAMDIR is RAMDirectory
.
Chart by Dawid Weiss. Source: LUCENE-8438 and shown under Apache 2.0 License.