Your question is much too generic. You do not provide how you are using it, populating it etc.
Search can be... slower though because its filtering entire text blocks versus just comparing a string, so yes. it can be.
But please make sure to post code and examples and an explanation of the data, like how much rows, how many users call it etc.
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