Equivalent XPath and cts:search expressions should perform the same. Can you
share an example, and what version you are using?
If they are equivalent and there is a performance difference, then there may be
a bug.
Kelly
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:05:16 -0600
From: "seme...@hotmail.com" <seme...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Why is cts:search so much faster than
XPath?
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I wrote awhile ago that I thought it was usually best to use search:search for
full text searching, cts:search for node selection out of the db, and XPath for
node selection within a document. I just ran into a situation that doing the
same query for nodes in the DB using cts:search was 6 times faster than using
XPath.
So what is it about cts:search that makes it so fast? I assume that there are
optimizations under the covers, but how is cts:search able to gain from the
optimizations but XPath is not? Just curious.
-Ryan
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