# Poor performance in people seeking

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poor-performance-in-people-seeking/7984>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 5, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poor-performance-in-people-seeking/7984 "2012-06-05T17:32:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Andre\_Kullmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Andre\_Kullmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Kullmann)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poor-performance-in-people-seeking/7984/1 "2012-06-05T17:32:14Z")

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Hi,

I'm looking for a solution for a customer search. I my test I created a  
Index, without customization. I inserted 3 million customer records (  
firstname, surname, email, ... ). To search a customer I used a fuzzy query  
only on the firstname. Each query took ~300ms and the cpu load is near  
100%. I can not imagine that es is so slow. Can someone give a hint or tell  
me where I can find a example for a (fuzzy) name search in es.

Thanks,  
André

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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poor-performance-in-people-seeking/7984/2 "2012-06-06T00:28:55Z")

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André,

Two other options if you want to try them - phonetic search and ngrams.

## Otis

Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:32:14 PM UTC-4, Andre Kullmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a solution for a customer search. I my test I created a  
> Index, without customization. I inserted 3 million customer records (  
> firstname, surname, email, ... ). To search a customer I used a fuzzy  
> query only on the firstname. Each query took ~300ms and the cpu load is  
> near 100%. I can not imagine that es is so slow. Can someone give a hint or  
> tell me where I can find a example for a (fuzzy) name search in es.
> 
> Thanks,  
> André

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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, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poor-performance-in-people-seeking/7984/3 "2017-07-06T03:25:31Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:25am UTC