How to Use MongoDB’s Text Search

This tutorial was written by Damilola Oladele. How to Use MongoDB's Text Search MongoDB Search is an embedded full-text search engine that lives inside your MongoDB deployment. You don't need to run a separate search system alongside your database. You get fine-grained text indexing, a rich query language for complex search logic, customizable relevance scoring, and advanced features like autocomplete and faceted search. This tutorial shows you how to insert a sample book catalog into MongoDB, create a search index, and run six types of text search queries in Python. You'll learn the following in this tutorial: What search queries, search indexes, and search analyzers are in MongoDB How to insert sample data and create a search index How to run a basic text search How to search across multiple fields How to search with fuzzy matching How to search for a term while excluding another word How to combine search conditions with the compound operator How to include relevance scores in your