The new, "experimental" Cardinality Aggregation talks about a murmur3 field type which allows precomputed hashes to speed up high cardinality fields: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-metrics-cardinality-aggregation.html#_pre_computed_hashes Can this be added to the FieldType enum? Is there some backdoor way to specify a field type by string?