Hi, One of the things that we were thinking of doing in order to speed up results from Solr search is to convert fixed-text fields (such as values from a drop-down) into numeric fields. The thinking behind this was that searching through numeric values would be faster than searching through text. However, I now feel that we were barking up the wrong tree, as Lucene is probably not doing a text search per se.
From some experiments, I see only a small difference between a text search on a field, and a numeric search on the corresponding numeric field. This difference can probably be attributed to the additional processing on the text field. Could someone clarify on whether one can expect a difference in speed between searching through a fixed-text field, and its numeric equivalent? I am aware of the benefit of numeric fields for range queries. Regards, Gora
