I completely understand that. You just haven't mentioned it until now. You could also look for inefficiencies in the search. Maybe the query is inefficient, m

I completely understand that. You just haven't mentioned it until now. You could also look for inefficiencies in the search. Maybe the query is inefficient, maybe you can make use of database functionality such as full-text search and/or indexes etc. If you don't have access to make those changes to the db, you can cache the data in your backend memory, your own DB, Redis or whatever you prefer, so your app can be nice and snappy regardless of how ass your dependency is.