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setIndexCommitQuorum

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setIndexCommitQuorum

Changes the minimum number of data-bearing members (i.e commit quorum), including the primary, that must complete an in-progress simultaneous index build before the primary marks those indexes as ready.

This command is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

  • MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud

Note

This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on all commands, see Unsupported Commands.

The command has the following syntax:

db.runCommand(
{
setIndexCommitQuorum: <string>,
indexNames: [ <document> ],
commitQuorum: <int> | <string>,
comment: <any>
}
)

The command takes the following fields:

Field
Type
Description
string

The name of the collection for which the indexes are being built.

array

An array of in-progress index builds to modify. Each element of the array must be the name of the index.

The indexes specified to indexNames must be the entire set of in-progress builds associated to a given index builder, i.e. the indexes built by a single createIndexes or db.collection.createIndexes() operation.

int or string

The minimum number of data-bearing replica set members (i.e. commit quorum), including the primary, that must report a successful index build before the primary marks the indexes as ready.

Starting in MongoDB v5.0, it's possible to resume some interrupted index builds when the commit quorum is set to "votingMembers".

Replica set nodes in a commit quorum must have members[n].buildIndexes set to true. If any voting nodes have members[n].buildIndexes set to false, you can't use the default "votingMembers" commit quorum. Either configure all nodes with members[n].buildIndexes set to true, or select a different commit quorum.

Supports the following values:

  • "votingMembers" - all data-bearing voting replica set members (Default). A "voting" member is any replica set member where members[n].votes is greater than 0.

  • "majority" - a simple majority of data-bearing replica set members.

  • <int> - a specific number of data-bearing replica set members. Specify an integer greater than 0.

  • A replica set tag name.

comment
any

Optional. A user-provided comment to attach to this command. Once set, this comment appears alongside records of this command in the following locations:

A comment can be any valid BSON type (string, integer, object, array, etc).

Note

Requires featureCompatibilityVersion 4.4+

Each mongod in the replica set or sharded cluster must have featureCompatibilityVersion set to at least 4.4 to start index builds simultaneously across replica set members.

Issuing setIndexCommitQuorum has no effect on index builds started with commitQuorum of 0.

Important

Replica set nodes with buildIndexes set to false can't be included in a commit quorum.

Index builds on a replica set or sharded cluster build simultaneously across all data-bearing replica set members. For sharded clusters, the index build occurs only on shards containing data for the collection being indexed. The primary requires a minimum number of data-bearing voting members (i.e commit quorum), including itself, that must complete the build before marking the index as ready for use. See Index Builds in Replicated Environments for more information.

The following operation starts an index build of two indexes:

db.getSiblingDB("examples").invoices.createIndexes(
[
{ "invoices" : 1 },
{ "fulfillmentStatus" : 1 }
]
)

By default, index builds use "votingMembers" commit quorum, or all data-bearing voting replica set members. The following operation modifies the index build commit quorum to "majority", or a simple majority of data-bearing voting members:.

db.getSiblingDB("examples").runCommand(
{
"setIndexCommitQuorum" : "invoices",
"indexNames" : ["invoices_1", "fullfillmentStatus_1"],
"commitQuorum" : "majority"
}
)
  • The indexes specified to indexNames must be the entire set of in-progress builds associated to a given index builder, i.e. the createIndexes() operation.

  • The indexNames field specifies the names of the indexes. Since the indexes were created without an explicit name, MongoDB generated an index name by concatenating the names of the indexed fields and the sort order.

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