| Query | Example | Notes |
| single term | document | Searches for documents that contain "document" term in the default field. |
| phrase | "important document" | Searches for documents that contain the phrase "important document" in the default fields. |
| searching fields | title:document | Searches for documents that contain the term "document" in the "title" field. |
| wildcard search | doc?ment | Single-character wildcard search. It will match "document" and "dociment" but not "docooment". |
| document* | Multi-character wildcard search. It will match "document" and "documentation". | |
| fuzzy search | document~ | Search based on similar spelling. |
| document~0.9 | Search based on similar spelling. 0.9 is the required similarity (default: 0.5) | |
| proximity search | "important document"~5 | Find words of a phrase that are not next to each other. Maximum distance in this example is 5 words. |
| range search | author:{Einstein TO Newton} | Searches for document with "author" field value between specified values. |
| date:{20050101 TO 20050201} | Searches for document with "date" fields (DateTime type) value between specified dates. | |
| relevance | important^4 document | Set boost factor of the term "important" to 4. Default boost factor is 1. |
| "important document"^4 "search engine" | You can set boost factor for phrases too. | |
| OR operator | important document | "OR" is the default operator. |
| important OR document | The default field must contain either "important" or "document". | |
| AND operator | important AND document | The default field must contain both words. |
| + operator | important +document | The default field must contain "document" and may contain "important". |
| NOT/- operator | -important document | The default field must contain "document" but not "important". |
| grouping | (important OR office) AND document | Use parentheses for expression grouping. |
| author:(Einstein OR Newton) | Parentheses work with fields as well. |