# Bool filters vs and filters - more questions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-filters-vs-and-filters-more-questions/14257
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 5, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-filters-vs-and-filters-more-questions/14257 "2013-11-05T10:01:49Z")
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### Author:  [@DH1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DH1)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-filters-vs-and-filters-more-questions/14257/1 "2013-11-05T10:01:49Z")
Hello, everyone.
I've read a few threads from various sources about de differences between a
boolFilter (with several must clauses) and an andFilter.
The conclusions where that a boolFilter is prefered (due to the speed of
bitwise operations), as long as you do not have numeric\_ranges filters,
scripts filters and geo\_distance filters. (because those do not create
bitsets).
However, with the andFilter, if a filter does not match a doc, subsequent
filters will not be applied to this docs, wich seems highly interresting.
Here, we are working with very complicated docs, containings hundreds of
different fields, and I was wondering....
If the queries we do here had lots of filters (7-10) and the fields used
for those queries had a lot (and I mean a lot) of different values (wich
would actually means that for a fair bit of the filters, the bitset would
not yet be present, I assume) ... would it still be more efficient to use a
boolFilter over an AndFilter? (even if none of the filters are of the three
aforementionned types that does not build bitsets)
Or would the "short-circuit effect" of the andFilter more than make up for
the lack of bitwise operations?
Any insight on that matter would be of a tremendous help.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bool-filters-vs-and-filters-more-questions/14257/2 "2017-07-06T02:08:55Z")