# Index building performance fulltext vs schema

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/index-building-performance-fulltext-vs-schema/8187>\
**Category:** Operations\
**Tags:** index\
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/index-building-performance-fulltext-vs-schema/8187 "2019-06-19T16:18:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![dsolow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/dsolow/32/4431_2.png) [@dsolow](https://community.neo4j.com/u/dsolow)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/index-building-performance-fulltext-vs-schema/8187/4 "2019-06-20T13:48:39Z")

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3.5.6 does seem significantly faster. It looks like it will finish in around 2.5 hours, which isn't great, but I can probably work with it for now

I also saw it mentioned [here](https://community.neo4j.com/t/indexing-a-string-property-is-taking-several-days-and-it-doesnt-seem-near-to-completion/6696) that the `Dorg.neo4j.kernel.impl.index.schema.GenericNativeIndexPopulator.blockBasedPopulation=true` setting might speed things up. Do you think that's worth trying?

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