Solr date field tdate vs date?

Question

So I have a question about Solr\'s field date types which is pretty straight forward: what\'s the difference between a \'date\' field and a \'tdate\' one?

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Answer 1

Basically trie ranges are faster. Here is one explanation. With precisionStep you configure how much your index can grow to get the performance benefits. To quote from the link you are referring:

More importantly, it is not dependent on the index size, but instead the precision chosen.

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the only drawbacks of TrieRange are a little bit larger index sizes, because of the additional terms indexed