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MongoDB offers a full-text search solution, MongoDB Atlas Search, for data hosted on MongoDB Atlas. A legacy text search capability is available for users self-managing MongoDB deployments.
MongoDB Atlas Search
For MongoDB Atlas users, MongoDB's Atlas Search supports fine-grained
text indexing and a rich query language for fast, relevant search
results. To learn more about full-text search indexes and
$search queries, see:
Atlas Search also offers common analyzers for parsing text for full-text search, including support for over 40 language-specific analyzers.
Legacy Text Search
For self-managed deployments, MongoDB's legacy text search capability
supports query operations that perform a text search of string content.
To perform text search, MongoDB uses a text index and the $text operator.
Note
Views do not support text search.
To learn more about legacy text search for self-managed deployments, see:
MongoDB also supports text search for various languages. See Text Search Languages for a list of supported languages.