# Building high-performance full-text search for object storage

DevFeed: [Building high-performance full-text search for object storage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-high-performance-full-text-search-for-object-storage-5097.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-full-text-search-object-storage>)

Author: Elmi Ahmadov, Jimmy Aguilar, and George Larionov

Published: 2026-03-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [deep-dive](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-dive.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [object-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-storage.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

ClickHouse engineers describe a redesigned full-text index optimized for object storage. The layout favors sequential access and can answer many queries directly from the index without reading the indexed text column, preserving full-text search performance on both remote object storage and local disks.

## Source excerpt

High-performance full-text search, even on object storage. This deep dive from the ClickHouse engineers explains the new text index design and how it keeps queries fast at scale.