Thanks for your responses, helped me to understand the issue. Digged through the documentation and now I am implementing EdgeNGramFilterFactory to see how fastly can I improve wild card searches.
<fieldType name="type_wildcard" class="solr.TextField"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/> <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="2" maxGramSize="10" side="front" /> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-search-on-a-large-text-field-is-very-slow-tp4083310p4083365.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.