Re: AND vs. OR query performance

2008-05-12 Thread Lars Kotthoff
Thanks for the clarification. The behaviour I'm seeing is that OR queries are almost *twice* as performant as AND queries, so that's probably down to my specific setup/data. I'll try to investigate further. Lars On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:35:00 -0400 "Yonik Seeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In ge

Re: AND vs. OR query performance

2008-05-12 Thread Yonik Seeley
In general, AND will perform better than OR (because of skipping in the scorers). But if the number of documents matching the AND is close to that matching the OR query, then skipping doesn't gain you much and probably has a little more overhead. -Yonik On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Lars Kott