Update:
Solr/Lucene 4.0 will incorporate a new fuzzy search algorithm with
substantial performance improvements.
To tide us over until this release, we've simply rebuilt from source with a
default prefix length of 2, which will suit our needs until then.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Kyle Le
We're performing fuzzy searches on a field possessing a large number of
unique terms. Specifying a required minimum similarity of 0.7 results in a
query execution time of 13-15 seconds, which stands in stark contrast to our
average query time of 40ms.
We suspect that the performance problem most l
