Why is performing an index search on "myemail" quick, while "myemail@gmail.com" spins on?

Question

I have a few 100 GB large index of misc file types. If I search it for "myemail" , it comes back in ~60 seconds. If I search for "myemail@gmail.com" it spins and spins. Any help?

Answer 1

When an input string such as "myemail@gmail.com" is indexed it is split into two string:

"myemail"
"gmail.com"

Therefore the query is actually searching for two separate terms that are next to each other, which is a little bit more complex.

How many files are in your index?

Comments

Around 1000 200MB files. I left it running overnight and the search still didn't complete. Is there a way to force it to treat the string and one term?

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That does sound unusual. At the moment there's no way to change what is defined as a term but that's something we want to add in future. What type of data is in the files?

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purely text data, mostly csv, some sql tables

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How large is your actual index folder?