*Could someone point me how to order docIds as per **http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveSearchingSpeed <http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveSearchingSpeed>*
*"Limit usage of stored fields and term vectors. Retrieving these from the index is quite costly. Typically you should only retrieve these for the current "page" the user will see, not for all documents in the full result set. For each document retrieved, Lucene must seek to a different location in various files. Try sorting the documents you need to retrieve by docID order first."* *To give some background:* *We are using plain vanilla LUCNE (version 4.2.1) for our **Our application.**We index our documents using stored fields. We add two fields related to our documents: UUID: 9 digit number represents internal id and doc_text: document text( 7k to 20K in size approx). In our search code, **we use boolean Query to retrive by UUID and fetch document text use if for other processing. We are noticing slow response times with the searches. I understand that stored field retrieval are slower and should be limited but this is mandatory for our app.* Current code: TopScoreDocCollector collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(BooleanQuery.getMaxClauseCount(), true); dirReader = DirectoryReader.open(FSDirectory.open(......)) IndexSearcher indexSearcher = new IndexSearcher(dirReader); indexSearcher.search(query, collector); ScoreDoc[] scoreDocs = collector.topDocs().scoreDocs; for (ScoreDoc scoreDoc : scoreDocs) { Document luceneDoc = indexSearcher.doc(scoreDoc.doc); String text = luceneDoc.get("doc_text"); //these calls take lot of time //process text }