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Deploy full-text index

Nebula Graph full-text indexes are powered by Elasticsearch. This means that you can use Elasticsearch full-text query language to retrieve what you want. Full-text indexes are managed through built-in procedures. They can be created only for variable STRING and FIXED_STRING properties when the listener cluster and the Elasticsearch cluster are deployed.

Precaution

Before you start using the full-text index, please make sure that you know the restrictions.

Deploy Elasticsearch cluster

To deploy an Elasticsearch cluster, see Kubernetes Elasticsearch deployment or Elasticsearch installation.

When the Elasticsearch cluster is started, add the template file for the Nebula Graph full-text index. For more information on index templates, see Elasticsearch Document.

Take the following sample template for example:

{
 "template": "nebula*",
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": 3,
      "number_of_replicas": 1
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "properties" : {
            "tag_id" : { "type" : "long" },
            "column_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "value" :{ "type" : "keyword"}
        }
  }
}

Make sure that you specify the following fields in strict accordance with the preceding template format:

"template": "nebula*"
"tag_id" : { "type" : "long" },
"column_id" : { "type" : "text" },
"value" :{ "type" : "keyword"}

Caution

When creating a full-text index, start the index name with nebula.

For example:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:9200/_template/nebula_index_template -d '
{
 "template": "nebula*",
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": 3,
      "number_of_replicas": 1
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "properties" : {
            "tag_id" : { "type" : "long" },
            "column_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "value" :{ "type" : "keyword"}
        }
  }
}'

You can configure the Elasticsearch to meet your business needs. To customize the Elasticsearch, see Elasticsearch Document.

Sign in to the text search clients

When the Elasticsearch cluster is deployed, use the SIGN IN statement to sign in to the Elasticsearch clients. Multiple elastic_ip:port pairs are separated with commas. You must use the IPs and the port number in the configuration file for the Elasticsearch.

Syntax

SIGN IN TEXT SERVICE [(<elastic_ip:port> [,<username>, <password>]), (<elastic_ip:port>), ...];

Example

nebula> SIGN IN TEXT SERVICE (127.0.0.1:9200);

Note

Elasticsearch does not have a username or password by default. If you configured a username and password, you need to specify them in the SIGN IN statement.

Show text search clients

The SHOW TEXT SEARCH CLIENTS statement can list the text search clients.

Syntax

SHOW TEXT SEARCH CLIENTS;

Example

nebula> SHOW TEXT SEARCH CLIENTS;
+-------------+------+
| Host        | Port |
+-------------+------+
| "127.0.0.1" | 9200 |
| "127.0.0.1" | 9200 |
| "127.0.0.1" | 9200 |
+-------------+------+

Sign out to the text search clients

The SIGN OUT TEXT SERVICE statement can sign out all the text search clients.

Syntax

SIGN OUT TEXT SERVICE;

Example

nebula> SIGN OUT TEXT SERVICE;

Last update: November 1, 2021
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