# Search against analyzed text vs keyword array field

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-against-analyzed-text-vs-keyword-array-field/210096
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-against-analyzed-text-vs-keyword-array-field/210096 "2019-12-02T02:54:18Z")
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### Author: ![chanakagl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chanakagl/32/54677_2.png) [@chanakagl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chanakagl)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-against-analyzed-text-vs-keyword-array-field/210096/1 "2019-12-02T02:54:18Z")

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Hi,

I have a text field which contains millions of ids in comma separated,  
EX :-  
"field1: "1254,4578,578795,451546,3658,5689,........"

I'm currently analyzed above field with punctuation tokenizer and do the match queries to get what i want. But what happens if i split those values and store in keyword array,  
I know keywords fields are best for aggregation but what would be fastest way for searching, analyzed text or keyword array field?

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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: [December 30, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-against-analyzed-text-vs-keyword-array-field/210096/2 "2019-12-30T02:54:27Z")

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