Long queries hurt Solr on many layers. You can experiment with https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_1/other-parsers.html#terms-query-parser
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Faraz Fallahi <faraz.fall...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi > > I have a question regarding solr queries. > My query basically contains thousand of OR conditions for authors > (author:name1 OR author:name2 OR author:name3 OR author:name4 ...) > The execution time on my index is huge (around 15 sec). When i tag all the > associated documents with a custom field and value like authorlist:1 and > then i change my query to just search for authorlist:1 it executes in 78 > ms. How come there is such a big difference in exec-time? > Can somebody please explain why there is sucha difference (maybe the query > parser?) and if there is a way to speed this up? > > Thx for the help > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev