From 29acf1104d866b995bb8176c494a523719658b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Masurel Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:44:26 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Update README's claim on performance. --- README.md | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9f552178b..6b2813ea3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -31,12 +31,16 @@ Tantivy is, in fact, strongly inspired by Lucene's design. # Benchmark -Tantivy is typically faster than Lucene, but the results depend on -the nature of the queries in your workload. - The following [benchmark](https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/) break downs performance for different type of queries / collection. + +In general, Tantivy tends to be +- slower than Lucene 8 on union with a Top-K due to Block-WAND optimization. +- faster than Lucene on intersection and phrase queries. + +Your mileage WILL vary depending on the nature of queries and their load. + # Features - Full-text search