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*FieldSelector performance numbers In my particular case, using FieldSelector sped up my responses by a factor of about 10. See FieldSelectorPerformance
*Using SpanQuery for database join
*Using deletion neighborhoods for fast Fuzzy queries (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/FastSSFuzzy)
*Using Brics for fast Regex queries (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/FastRegexp)