Floats are Trie types and are stored in a compressed format. They will search faster. They will also sort with much less space.
One thing to point out is that doing bitwise comparison on floats is to live in a state of sin. Your string representations must parse exactly right. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Nagelberg, Kallin <knagelb...@globeandmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have an idea about the performance benefits of searching across > floats compared to strings? I have one multi-valued field that contains about > 3000 distinct IDs across 5 million documents. I am going to be a lot of > queries like q=id:102 OR id:303 OR id:305, etc. Right now it is a String but > I am going to switch to a float as intuitively it ought to be easier to > filter a number than a string. I'm just curious if this should in fact bring > a benefit, and more generally what the benefits/penalties to using numerical > over string field types is. > > Thanks, > Kallin Nagelberg > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
