# Case insensitive search in terms query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 17, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139 "2019-10-17T22:31:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Seetha93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Seetha93](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetha93)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/1 "2019-10-17T22:31:53Z")

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Is it possible to make terms query case insensitive ? The fields being queried are text field.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/2 "2019-10-17T23:11:57Z")

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Not really. Use a match query instead.

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**Author:** ![Seetha93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Seetha93](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetha93)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/3 "2019-10-17T23:27:23Z")

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Either, I can send exact terms to `terms` query, which is faster(since its not analyzing)  
or I can compromise on the speed and do the case insensitive search on `query_string` or `match`.

Did I get it right?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/4 "2019-10-18T08:18:45Z")

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Well. I'm not sure you really see the difference between a Term query and a Match query regarding to the response time.  
Do you see any significant difference?

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**Author:** ![Seetha93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Seetha93](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetha93)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/5 "2019-10-21T18:51:45Z")

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I haven't seen any significance difference yet in my query time. Theoretically, since terms query don't analyze before running the query it is faster than the one which analyzes. Isn't it ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/6 "2019-10-21T19:08:14Z")

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Sure. But are we speaking of nanoseconds?

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**Author:** ![Seetha93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Seetha93](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Seetha93)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/7 "2019-10-21T20:14:59Z")

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Yes! Thats the reason i don't see any significant difference in my real time scenarios.

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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:** [November 18, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-search-in-terms-query/204139/8 "2019-11-18T20:15:05Z")

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