Compare the search mode.
For a basic search like this one, make sure that you are running the search in "fast mode" not in "verbose or smart mode",
It may do a different if you have many automatic fields extractions / lookups.
What is the nature of your data, are they key/values, or do they require complex regexes to parse at search time ?
About the memory map reduce, this would be more relevant if you have several indexers.