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In addition to the numerous index types MongoDB supports, indexes can also have various properties. The following documents detail the index properties that you can select when building an index.
- TTL Indexes
- The TTL index is used for TTL collections, which expire data after a period of time.
- Unique Indexes
- A unique index causes MongoDB to reject all documents that contain a duplicate value for the indexed field.
- Partial Indexes
- A partial index indexes only documents that meet specified filter criteria.
- Case-Insensitive Indexes
- A case insensitive index disregards the case of the index key values.
- Hidden Indexes
- A hidden index is not visible to the query planner.
- Sparse Indexes
- A sparse index does not index documents that do not have the indexed field.