Speed of complex boolean searches on large indexes

2005-09-09 Thread mopster
Hi, I am testing the speed of searching Lucene indexes. The index is of the larger size! It has about 500,000 documents, about 60 fields with 1 field (Field1) containing the body of the document. Total index size is currently about 20Gb Testing the search i get this behaviour (Field2:1) AND (F

Re: Speed of complex boolean searches on large indexes

2005-09-09 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Well, by changing your query, you are changing your criteria, so I assume you also got different (less) results. That's one reason why your query got faster. If index size is the issue, and that Field1 consumes most of it, and you are not using it in search (I don't see it in your sample query), e