If you are really using all of that precision (down to the second) the
short answer is YES.
If you can remove much of that precision (only keep down to the day,
for example), then you may be able to get perfectly good performance
with strings alone when the range is only over a small set of terms,
Hi,
I have a Date field in my Lucene index that is currently stored as a
String field with format: MMDDHHMISS. I perform RangeFilter on it
when searching and also sort the results specifying it as a String
field. My question is, will converting it to a Numeric field and start
using Numeri
