fast
is stored in a column-oriented fashion. Fast fields are necessary for
aggregations. They can also improve the query times of filtering and
sorting.
By default, numeric, datetime, UUID and boolean
are indexed as fast. The following code block demonstrates how to specify other data types as fast fields.
raw
normalizer is used. The raw
normalizer is useful for accelerating
queries that sort by the text field.
lowercase
is useful for queries that sort by the lowercase text field.