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Atlas Search Index Methods

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New in version 6.0.7.

Atlas Search indexes let you query data in Atlas Search. Atlas Search indexes enable performant text search queries by mapping search terms to the documents that contain those terms.

Use the following methods to manage Atlas Search indexes.

Important

The following methods can only be run on deployments hosted on MongoDB Atlas, and require an Atlas cluster tier of at least M10.

Name	Description
`db.collection.createSearchIndex()`	Creates an Atlas Search index on a specified collection.
`db.collection.dropSearchIndex()`	Deletes an existing Atlas Search index.
`db.collection.getSearchIndexes()`	Returns information about existing Atlas Search indexes on a specified collection.
`db.collection.updateSearchIndex()`	Updates an existing Atlas Search index.

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