Don't load global ordinals with the map execution_hint (#37833)

The terms aggregator loads the global ordinals to retrieve the cardinality of the field to aggregate on. This information is then used to select the strategy to use for the aggregation (breadth_first or depth_first). However this should be avoided if the execution_hint is explicitly set to map since this mode doesn't really need the global ordinals. Since we still need the cardinality of the field this change picks the maximum cardinality in the segments as an estimation of the total cardinality to select the strategy to use (breadth_first or depth_first). This estimation is only used if the execution hint is set to map, otherwise the global ordinals are still used to retrieve the accurate cardinality.

Closes #37705

Author: jimczi

rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/20_terms.yml

@@ -700,3 +700,74 @@ setup:
   - is_false: aggregations.str_terms.buckets.1.key_as_string
 
   - match: { aggregations.str_terms.buckets.1.doc_count: 2 }
+
+---
+"Global ordinals are not loaded with the map execution hint":
+
+  - skip:
+      version: " - 6.99.99"
+      reason:  bug fixed in 7.0
+
+  - do:
+      index:
+        refresh: true
+        index: test_1
+        id: 1
+        routing: 1
+        body: { "str": "abc" }
+
+  - do:
+      index:
+        refresh: true
+        index: test_1
+        id: 2
+        routing: 1
+        body: { "str": "abc" }
+
+  - do:
+      index:
+        refresh: true
+        index: test_1
+        id: 3
+        routing: 1
+        body: { "str": "bcd" }
+
+  - do:
+      indices.refresh: {}
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test_1
+        body: { "size" : 0, "aggs" : { "str_terms" : { "terms" : { "field" : "str", "execution_hint" : "map" } } } }
+
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 3}
+  - length: { aggregations.str_terms.buckets: 2 }
+
+  - do:
+      indices.stats:
+        index: test_1
+        metric: fielddata
+        fielddata_fields: str
+
+  - match: { indices.test_1.total.fielddata.memory_size_in_bytes: 0}
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test_1
+        body: { "size" : 0, "aggs" : { "str_terms" : { "terms" : { "field" : "str", "execution_hint" : "global_ordinals" } } } }
+
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 3}
+  - length: { aggregations.str_terms.buckets: 2 }
+
+  - do:
+      indices.stats:
+        index: test_1
+        metric: fielddata
+        fielddata_fields: str
+
+  - gt: { indices.test_1.total.fielddata.memory_size_in_bytes: 0}
+
+
+
+
+

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/aggregations/bucket/terms/TermsAggregatorFactory.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms;
 
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ParseField;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.DeprecationLogger;
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ protected Aggregator doCreateInternal(ValuesSource valuesSource, Aggregator pare
             if (valuesSource instanceof ValuesSource.Bytes.WithOrdinals == false) {
                 execution = ExecutionMode.MAP;
             }
-            final long maxOrd = getMaxOrd(valuesSource, context.searcher());
+            final long maxOrd = getMaxOrd(context.searcher(), valuesSource, execution);
             if (execution == null) {
                 execution = ExecutionMode.GLOBAL_ORDINALS;
             }
@@ -207,13 +208,23 @@ static SubAggCollectionMode subAggCollectionMode(int expectedSize, long maxOrd)
     }
 
     /**
-     * Get the maximum global ordinal value for the provided {@link ValuesSource} or -1
+     * Get the maximum ordinal value for the provided {@link ValuesSource} or -1
      * if the values source is not an instance of {@link ValuesSource.Bytes.WithOrdinals}.
      */
-    static long getMaxOrd(ValuesSource source, IndexSearcher searcher) throws IOException {
+    static long getMaxOrd(IndexSearcher searcher, ValuesSource source, ExecutionMode executionMode) throws IOException {
         if (source instanceof ValuesSource.Bytes.WithOrdinals) {
             ValuesSource.Bytes.WithOrdinals valueSourceWithOrdinals = (ValuesSource.Bytes.WithOrdinals) source;
-            return valueSourceWithOrdinals.globalMaxOrd(searcher);
+            if (executionMode == ExecutionMode.MAP) {
+                // global ordinals are not requested so we don't load them
+                // and return the biggest cardinality per segment instead.
+                long maxOrd = -1;
+                for (LeafReaderContext leaf : searcher.getIndexReader().leaves()) {
+                    maxOrd = Math.max(maxOrd, valueSourceWithOrdinals.ordinalsValues(leaf).getValueCount());
+                }
+                return maxOrd;
+            } else {
+                return valueSourceWithOrdinals.globalMaxOrd(searcher);
+            }
         } else {
             return -1;
         }
@@ -258,7 +269,7 @@ Aggregator create(String name,
                               List<PipelineAggregator> pipelineAggregators,
                               Map<String, Object> metaData) throws IOException {
 
-                final long maxOrd = getMaxOrd(valuesSource, context.searcher());
+                final long maxOrd = getMaxOrd(context.searcher(), valuesSource, ExecutionMode.GLOBAL_ORDINALS);
                 assert maxOrd != -1;
                 final double ratio = maxOrd / ((double) context.searcher().getIndexReader().numDocs());