# "Heavy" queries for elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heavy-queries-for-elasticsearch/1129 "2015-05-21T20:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrismark/32/400_2.png) [@ChrisMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrisMark)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heavy-queries-for-elasticsearch/1129/1 "2015-05-21T20:52:33Z")
Ηello everyone, i am looking for queries-searches to do on my elasticsearch cluster to push it to the limits. My goal is to compare the response time by executing the same search while i am adding more nodes to the cluster. I would like to see the scalability of my cluster and how adding more nodes improves the response time. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heavy-queries-for-elasticsearch/1129/2 "2015-05-21T21:22:03Z")
Whatever queries you'd expect users to actually do. In general phrase queries are more expensive than non-phrase queries. Highlighting is expensive - more expensive with large number of results returned. Too many results returned will crash elasticsearch - like millions. ---
**Author:** ![mosiddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mosiddi/32/577_2.png) [@mosiddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mosiddi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heavy-queries-for-elasticsearch/1129/3 "2015-06-07T15:07:32Z")
try wild-cards that matches a good number of hits ---
**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, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heavy-queries-for-elasticsearch/1129/4 "2017-07-06T00:09:07Z")