A method and apparatus for performing relatively fast record searching is provided. The design includes providing one alphanumeric key to any record of a plurality of records not including an alphanumeric key, providing one text description comprising at least one word to any record of the plurality of records not including a text description having at least one word, and establishing a multidimensional index, where for each record there is provided in the multidimensional index a pointer pointing from one alphanumeric key to one associated record, a text description pointer pointing from each text description to the one associated record, a first reverse word index pointer pointing from each word to one alphanumeric key, and a second reverse word index pointer pointing from each word to one text description. Records are searched using the multidimensional index.