# Analyzers Standard vs Snowball

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzers-standard-vs-snowball/10142>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 20, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzers-standard-vs-snowball/10142 "2012-12-20T22:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Reynolds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@James\_Reynolds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Reynolds)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzers-standard-vs-snowball/10142/1 "2012-12-20T22:56:01Z")

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Our indexes are currently using the "Standard" analyzer. However, we would  
prefer to use snowball.

Can we simply change the configs and reindex, or do we have to blow away  
and then reindex (the latter we can't do, the former we probably can)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzers-standard-vs-snowball/10142/2 "2017-07-06T02:58:56Z")

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