Array vs Enum what's the difference and which one is better performance wise?

[AgentT]

These two field types looks very similar, what are the difference between the two?

If they are same, which one is better in terms of performance?

Thank You! :-)

[yuri]

The only difference is their appearance. It happen historically that we have two different field types. Even 3, checklist behaves the same in back-end.

[esforim]

How I see it:

Enum is a checkbox system, option is "static".

Array is a list of text line; write anything you want.

Personally I don't like array too much at the moment because the Search don't work too well with it. I use array field for "Alias and aka (also known as) field".

For example for Mr John Smith, I might added in "Johnny", or "Johnno"

[AgentT]

Alias is exactly what I want to use it for.

Thanks.

[yuri]

The Multi-enum supports custom values as well.