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From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Full-text speed
To: Thomas Goossens <thomgooss@gmail.com>
Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de


Hi Thomas,

your query will be evaluated much faster if you rewrite it to..

 //LINE[ text() contains text  "romeo juliet"]

This query should take ~3-5 ms on the 7.5mb Shakespeare instance.

You can have a look into our XQuery documentation
(http://basex.org/xquery, Section »Query Evaluation«) to get more
insight on query compilation and how to utilize the index structures.

Hope this helps,
Christian
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Thomas Goossens <thomgooss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying XQuery Full-text on BaseX and I am a bit surprised by the
> full-text query speed: I have loaded the Shakespeare plays into a
> BaseX database, and created a full-text index. So far so good.
>
> Then I a tried a query like:
>    //LINE[ . contains text  "romeo juliet" all words]
> (4 hits)
>
> It takes about 1200 ms. I expected less than 100 ms.
> For example I tried Qizx and it takes less than 20 ms.
> Even eXist (old version, with a different syntax)  was taking around 200 ms.
>
> I tried dropping the full-text index: that makes no difference!
> So clearly the FT index is not used. What should I do ?
>
> Thanks