# Index.queries.cache.term\_queries
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 26, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451 "2017-08-26T11:48:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Sundar\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sundar_V)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451/1 "2017-08-26T11:48:47Z")
After our initial migration from ES 2 to 5, one major issue that we faced was that the term queries were very slow in comparison to ES 2.
I had raised a GtitHub issue [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/23343](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/23343) and after jpountz pointed me to the below property, then our performance improved.
I see the following code in ES source at core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/IndexModule.java: 107
```
// This setting is an escape hatch in case not caching term queries would slow some users down
// Do not document.
public static final Setting INDEX_QUERY_CACHE_TERM_QUERIES_SETTING =
Setting.boolSetting("index.queries.cache.term_queries", false, Property.IndexScope);
```
I'm only concerned that since this is not documented, that it may end up being removed in the future ES.
We have more than 200 million documents and our majority (99%) of the tasks are term queries only. Could someone please consider to document this support and maintain it in future ES as well.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451/2 "2017-08-26T12:11:28Z")
We'd definitely encourage you to raise a PR with changes to the docs so we can include it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sundar\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sundar_V)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451/3 "2017-08-26T12:13:37Z")
Great! The reason I asked was, in the comments in the source code it was explicitly written as "Do not document". If you folks are open to documenting this, I will raise the PR. Thanks 😀
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-queries-cache-term-queries/98451/4 "2017-09-23T12:14:05Z")
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