# Is ElasticSearch supposed to run fast when searching the text?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-supposed-to-run-fast-when-searching-the-text/22980>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 30, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-supposed-to-run-fast-when-searching-the-text/22980 "2015-03-30T12:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vladi\_Feigin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Vladi\_Feigin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladi_Feigin)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-supposed-to-run-fast-when-searching-the-text/22980/1 "2015-03-30T12:50:17Z")

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Hi,

Please help me understand what's wrong here  
We have this query (see below)

Without this part, which searches in a text:

query": {  
"has\_child": {  
"type": "ttype",  
"query": {"match": {  
"text": "sometext"  
}}})

it works pretty fast (10-20 milliseconds) per request  
But when adding the text search part the latency grows to 1 sec .  
I was thinking that ES is designed to run amazingly fast when it searches  
the text , this is why we're researching this technology

Or maybe the query is wrong??

Our ES version is 1.4.2  
We have 9 primary shards + 1 replica  
Approximately 2M documents per shard (250 Mb per shard)

The query:

GET /events/Parent/\_search  
{  
"from": 0,  
"size": 50,  
"query": {  
"filtered": {  
"filter": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"range": {  
"startTime": {  
"gte": 1424300475000,  
"lte": 1426493475000  
}  
}  
},  
{  
"term": {  
"term1": 1  
}  
},  
{  
"exists": {  
"field": "inter"  
}  
},  
{  
"term": {  
"account": "site1"  
}  
}  
]  
}  
},  
"query": {  
"has\_child": {  
"type": "ttype",  
"query": {"match": {  
"text": "sometext"  
}}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

Thank you,  
Vladi

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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, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-supposed-to-run-fast-when-searching-the-text/22980/2 "2017-07-06T00:23:06Z")

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