Hi Sergey,

The mere mortals skimming over the questions in this forum often need very explicit examples to fully grasp a point. The transcript below, expanding on the earlier one above, shows the exact consequence of your statement 'problem is that Janusgraph uses tokenised field for "neq" comparisons and non tokenised for "eq". '

According to the ref docs the eq(), neq(), textPrefix(), textRegex() and textFuzzy() predicates should apply to STRING search (so to the non-tokenized field).

gremlin> g.addV('Some').property('x','watch the dog')
==>v[4192]
gremlin> g.tx().commit()
==>null
gremlin> g.V().elementMap()
10:03:40 WARN  org.janusgraph.graphdb.transaction.StandardJanusGraphTx  - Query requires iterating over all vertices [()]. For better performance, use indexes
==>[id:4192,label:Some,x:watch the dog]
==>[id:4264,label:Some,x:x2,y:??]
==>[id:4224,label:Some,x:x1,y:y1]

gremlin> g.V().has('x', eq('watch')).elementMap()
gremlin>
gremlin> g.V().has('x', eq('watch the dog')).elementMap()
==>[id:4192,label:Some,x:watch the dog]

gremlin> g.V().has('x', neq('watch the dog')).elementMap()
==>[id:4264,label:Some,x:x2,y:??]
==>[id:4224,label:Some,x:x1,y:y1]

gremlin> g.V().has('x', neq('watch')).elementMap()
==>[id:4264,label:Some,x:x2,y:??]
==>[id:4224,label:Some,x:x1,y:y1]
// Here, ==>[id:4192,label:Some,x:watch the dog] is missing, supporting Sergey's issue!!!

Related to this, there does not exist a negation for the textContains() predicate for full TEXT search. Using the TextP.notContaining()TinkerPop generic predicate, causes JanusGraph to not use the index.

I will post an issue on github referring to this thread.

Best wishes,   Marc