Hi, Perhaps you should give Lucene/Solr trunk a try and compare! The Wildcard query in trunk should be much faster.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ueland <tor.henn...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sun, April 10, 2011 10:44:46 AM > Subject: Performance with search terms starting and ending with wildcards > > Hi! > > I have been doing some testing with solr and wildcards. Queries like: > > - *foo > - foo* > > Does complete quickly(1-2s) in a test index on about 40-50GB. > > But when i try to do a search for *foo*, the search time can without any > trouble come upwards for 30seconds plus. > > Any ideas on how that issue can be worked around? > > One fix would be to change *foo* to (*foo or foo* or oof* or *oof) (is the > reverse even needed?). But that will not give the same results as *foo*, > logicly enough. > > I have also tried to set maxTimeAllowed, but that is simply ignored. I guess > that is related to either sorting or the wildcard search itself. > > -- > View this message in context: >http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Performance-with-search-terms-starting-and-ending-with-wildcards-tp2802561p2802561.html > > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
