Full text search mongdb 8 community edition

Andrew_Waterhouse · 2024-10-22T11:41:24.504Z

With the release of MongoDB 8, I had the impression that full text search and vector search would be available for the community download edition. I am aware that the lucene based search would require an additional server to run beside the standard mongodb, but so far I do not find any documentation as to how to do this, or if I am wrong, and this feature has not been brought the community version?
please point me in the right direction!

Diego_Freniche · 2024-10-22T12:09:46.031Z

Hi @Andrew_Waterhouse, welcome to the community!

For development purposes I recommend you to use Atlas CLI while the Community Edition catches up.

Using Atlas CLI is super simple, and you can manage both Atlas and local clusters. If you want to create a local cluster with the sample dataset and create a search index, just do:

$ atlas deployments setup

Then download the sample dataset:

$ curl  https://atlas-education.s3.amazonaws.com/sampledata.archive -o sampledata.archive

$ mongorestore --archive=sampledata.archive --port=27017

Create the Atlas Search indexes

$ atlas deployments search indexes create searchIndex --deploymentName local614 --type local --db sample_mflix --collection movies``

Hope this helps!

chris · 2024-10-22T13:41:39.949Z

Hi @Andrew_Waterhouse

Its coming. But it is not part of the current releases.

Andrew_Waterhouse · 2024-10-23T11:34:32.919Z

Thanks for the clarification, good to know it is still on the way!