Queryable Encryption equality and range queries are fully supported in production. Prefix, suffix, and substring queries are only available in public preview in MongoDB 8.2. Do not enable these query types in production. GA functionality of prefix, suffix and substring query types will be incompatible with the preview feature.
Overview
To enable Queryable Encryption in your development environment, you must first install a compatible driver and dependencies.
Procedure
1
Install a Queryable Encryption compatible driver
Install a MongoDB Driver Compatible with Queryable Encryption.
2
Install driver dependencies
See the Drivers compatibility table for a list of dependencies for your driver.
3
Start a MongoDB Atlas Cluster or Enterprise instance.
Start an Atlas Cluster or a MongoDB Enterprise instance.
Next Steps
Once you have installed a compatible driver and dependencies, install and configure a Queryable Encryption library to continue setting up your deployment and development environment.