# Data Service search in Customer module is slower compared to lucene search **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/data-service-search-in-customer-module-is-slower-compared-to-lucene-search/1051 "2019-08-27T08:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gokul.gopi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/53a042/32.png) [@gokul.gopi](https://forum.litium.com/u/gokul.gopi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/data-service-search-in-customer-module-is-slower-compared-to-lucene-search/1051/1 "2019-08-27T08:31:25Z")
Data Service search in Customer module is slower compared to lucene search, is there any best practice we should follow Litium version: \_[Version number]\_7 ---
**Author:** ![steve.redstorm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/steve.redstorm/32/14_2.png) [@steve.redstorm](https://forum.litium.com/u/steve.redstorm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/data-service-search-in-customer-module-is-slower-compared-to-lucene-search/1051/2 "2019-08-27T11:43:15Z")
DataService is hitting the DB directly and Lucene search is getting information from cache. If using DataService on public site make sure you cache the result so no unnecessary hit to DB next time. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/litium/original/1X/12eddac3b8b661de1db86af10ac8151b571e6fb9.png) [@system](https://forum.litium.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/data-service-search-in-customer-module-is-slower-compared-to-lucene-search/1051/3 "2019-09-24T11:44:54Z")
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