analysis.yaml

text:
    - SVF-123
    - SVF-234

analyzer: 
    analyzer_keyword:
        type: custom
        tokenizer: keyword
        filter: 
            - lowercase

documents.yaml

name: "SVF-123"
---
name: "SVF-234"

mappings.yaml

type:

# Your query_string query ends up as an OR on "*svf" and "1*".
#    _all: 
#        enabled: false

    properties: 
        name: 
            type: string

            # This is problematic. Terms are not being analyzed index time,
            # but is search time. And the search time analyzer generates incompatible terms.
            index: not_analyzed
            analyzer: analyzer_keyword

play.sh

#!/bin/bash

export ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:9200"

# Create indexes

curl -XPUT "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/play" -d '{
    "settings": {
        "analysis": {
            "text": [
                "SVF-123",
                "SVF-234"
            ],
            "analyzer": {
                "analyzer_keyword": {
                    "type": "custom",
                    "tokenizer": "keyword",
                    "filter": [
                        "lowercase"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "mappings": {
        "type": {
            "properties": {
                "name": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "index": "not_analyzed",
                    "analyzer": "analyzer_keyword"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}'


# Index documents
curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_bulk?refresh=true" -d '
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"type"}}
{"name":"SVF-123"}
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"type"}}
{"name":"SVF-234"}
'

# Do searches

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "facets": {
        "name": {
            "terms": {
                "field": "name"
            }
        },
        "_all": {
            "terms": {
                "field": "_all"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "name": {
                "query": "SVF-123"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "term": {
            "name": {
                "value": "SVF-123"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "term": {
            "_all": {
                "value": "svf"
            }
        }
    }
}
'

play.yaml

# Auto generated by Found's Play-tool at 2014-01-16T15:12:43+01:00
version: 0
title: "Erroneous analysis configuration "
description: ""

searches.yaml

# In reply to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21161062/elasticsearch-wildcard-search-on-not-analyzed-field


# See all the generated terms.
facets: 
    name:
        terms: 
            field: name

    _all:
        terms: 
            field: _all

---

query: 
    match: 
        name: 
            # Analyzed, so no match
            query: "SVF-123"

---


query: 
    term: 
        name: 
            # Not analyzed according to `analyzer_keyword`, so matches.
            value: "SVF-123"

---

query: 
    term: 
        _all:
            value: svf