# How fast work wildcard by not\_analyzed field?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-fast-work-wildcard-by-not-analyzed-field/4468>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 24, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-fast-work-wildcard-by-not-analyzed-field/4468 "2011-05-24T18:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Michael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-fast-work-wildcard-by-not-analyzed-field/4468/1 "2011-05-24T18:23:20Z")

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I have some not\_analyzed string fields, and I try to search by this fields on the 500 000 items on ES, and I have 2 second on my computer that is not realy fast  
What I need to do, to make it faster?

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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, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-fast-work-wildcard-by-not-analyzed-field/4468/2 "2017-07-06T04:05:25Z")

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