Hi Riccardo,
Thanks for your response. I've worked with fulltext before but the results 
in this case were poor. See below. Also, note that fulltext is expected to 
be removed in next release. 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orient-database/yroAgjsFpaI/oaaDAItM8mQJ

select location from geo where location containstext "kansas"
highland, kansas, united stateswinchester, kansas, united statesmadison, 
kansas, united statesyates center, kansas, united states


On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:41:52 AM UTC-7, Riccardo Tasso wrote:
>
> You can use the simplest (but good) FULLTEXT index ( 
> http://www.orientechnologies.com/docs/2.0/orientdb.wiki/FullTextIndex.html ) 
> and use the index prefix to its default value (true). Tune also the 
> minWordLength as you need.
>
> Then ask the query: SELECT FROM V WHERE location containsText "kansas"
>
> Cheers,
>    Riccardo
>
> 2015-01-22 19:26 GMT+01:00 Erik Peterson <[email protected] <javascript:>
> >:
>
>> Thanks for taking a look at this...appears to be a gap in ODB capability 
>> but maybe I'm missing something. To clarify...
>>
>> @Jing Yes I think the lucene results are as "designed" but not as 
>> "desired". Note that the desired search is like "kansas%" not "%kansas%"
>>
>> @Riccardo
>> Yes, prefix, "kansas%", startsWith(searchTerm), etc. type search. Yes, 
>> search term is variable length.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:02:52 AM UTC-7, Riccardo Tasso wrote:
>>>
>>> Probably Erik has the need of indexing prefixes.
>>>
>>> Just a question: does your prefixes have a fixed length or you want to 
>>> be able to perform fast searches on any possible substring of your fields?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>    Riccardo
>>>
>>> 2015-01-22 17:51 GMT+01:00 Jing Chen <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Erik,
>>>>
>>>> The Lucene result looks correct to me. Lucene index tokenizes your 
>>>> original string and creates index. so 
>>>>
>>>> select location from geo where location lucene "kansas*"
>>>>
>>>> should be the same as 
>>>>
>>>> select location from geo where location like "%kansas%"
>>>>
>>>> Jing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 8:42:19 AM UTC-8, Erik Peterson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently OrientDB does not provide a performant "like" search 
>>>>> capability. Is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's an example. 
>>>>>
>>>>> *1) Returns desired results but 10x slow*
>>>>> select from geo where location like "kansas%"
>>>>>
>>>>> "kansas, united states"
>>>>> "kansas city, kansas, united states"
>>>>> "kansas city, missouri, united states"
>>>>> "kansas, illinois, united states"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *2) Lucene does not return desired results (for this type of search)*
>>>>>
>>>>> select location from geo where location lucene "kansas*"
>>>>>
>>>>> "kansas, united states"
>>>>> "abilene, kansas, united states"
>>>>> "allen, kansas, united states"
>>>>> "alma, kansas, united states"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:11:59 AM UTC-7, Erik Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using 2.0-RC1
>>>>>> After some experimenting with queries using like, containstext, and 
>>>>>> lucene, I have a search where "select from X where like 'abc%" provides 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> best results. However it's slow and like can't use indexes correct? Is 
>>>>>> there another way to emmulate "like" with lucene indexes? (Note that  
>>>>>> "select 
>>>>>> from X where lucene 'abc*" provides very different search behavior from 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> simiar "like" query.) Thanks.
>>>>>>
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