The stopword list in SeekStorm is purely optional, per default it is empty. The query "to be or not to be" that you mentioned, consisting solely of stopwords,

The stopword list in SeekStorm is purely optional, per default it is empty. The query "to be or not to be" that you mentioned, consisting solely of stopwords, returns complete results and perform quite well in the benchmark: https://github.com/SeekStorm/SeekStorm?tab=readme-ov-file#benchmarks https://github.com/SeekStorm/SeekStorm?tab=readme-ov-file#be... Both Lucene and Elastic still offer stopword filters: https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_3_2/analysis/common/org/apache/lucene/analysis/core/StopFilter.html https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_3_2/analysis/common/org/ap... https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/text-analysis/analysis-stop-tokenfilter https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/text-analysis/analysis...