Well, I guess my first question is whether using stirngs is "fast enough", in which case there's little reason to make your life more complex.
But yes, range queries will be significantly faster with any of the Trie types than with strings. Trie types are all numeric types. Best Erick On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:49 AM, crive <marco.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > is there a big difference in terms of performances when querying a range > like [50.0 TO *] on a string field compared to a float field? > > At the moment I am using a dynamic field of type string to map some values > coming from our database and their type can vary depending on the context > (float/integer/string); it easier to use a dynamic field other than having > to create a bespoke field for each type of value. > > Marco
