Index overview¶

Indexes are built to fast process graph queries. Nebula Graph supports two kinds of indexes: native indexes and full-text indexes. This topic introduces the index types and helps choose the right index.

Native indexes¶

Native indexes allow querying data based on a given property. Features are as follows.

There are two kinds of native indexes: tag index and edge type index.

Native indexes must be updated manually. You can use the REBUILD INDEX statement to update native indexes.

Native indexes support indexing multiple properties on a tag or an edge type (composite indexes), but do not support indexing across multiple tags or edge types.

Operations on native indexes¶

CREATE INDEX

SHOW CREATE INDEX

SHOW INDEXES

DESCRIBE INDEX

REBUILD INDEX

SHOW INDEX STATUS

DROP INDEX

LOOKUP

MATCH

Full-text indexes¶

Full-text indexes are used to do prefix, wildcard, regexp, and fuzzy search on a string property. Features are as follows.

Full-text indexes allow indexing just one property.

Full-text indexes do not support logical operations such as AND, OR, and NOT.

Note

To do complete string matches, use native indexes.

Null values¶

Indexes do not support indexing null values.

Range queries¶

In addition to querying single results from native indexes, you can also do range queries. Not all the native indexes support range queries. You can only do range searches for numeric, date, and time type properties.

Last update: February 19, 2024