The performance of wild card queries and specially prefix wild card query can be quite slow.
http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_9_0/core/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.html Also, you won't be able to time them out. Take a look at ReversedWildcardFilter http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_9_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/analysis/ReversedWildcardFilterFactory.html The blog post describes it nicely .. http://solr.pl/en/2011/10/10/%E2%80%9Ccar-sale-application%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-solr-reversedwildcardfilter-%E2%80%93-lets-optimize-wildcard-queries-part-8/ On 19 August 2014 22:19, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > Substring search a string field using wildcard, "*", at beginning and end > of query term. > > Case-insensitive match on string field is not supported. > > Instead, copy the string field to a text field, use the keyword tokenizer, > and then apply the lower case filter. > > But... review your use case to confirm whether you really need to use > "string" as opposed to "text" field. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Nishanth S > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:03 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Substring and Case In sensitive Search > > > Hi, > > I am very new to solr.How can I allow solr search on a string field case > insensitive and substring?. > > Thanks, > Nishanth > -- Thanks & Regards Umesh Prasad Search l...@flipkart.com in.linkedin.com/pub/umesh-prasad/6/5bb/580/
