Text Indexes
MarkLogic Server allows you to configure, at the database level, which types of text indexes are constructed and maintained during document loading and updating. Each type of index accelerates the performance of a certain type of query. You can specify whether or not each different type of index is maintained for a given database.
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The index settings are designed to apply to an entire database. If you change any index settings on a database in which documents are already loaded, you must reindex your existing data, either by setting the reindexer enable setting to true for that database or by reloading the data.
Understanding your likely query set will help you determine which of these index types to maintain. The cost of supporting additional indexes is increased disk space and document load times. As more and more indexes are maintained, document load speed decreases. By default, MarkLogic Server builds a set of indexes that is designed to yield the fast query performance in general usage scenarios.
Text index types are configured on a per-database basis. This configuration should be completed before any documents are loaded into the specified database, although it can be changed later. If you change any index settings on a database in which documents are already loaded, you must reindex your existing data, either by setting the reindexer enable setting to true for that database or by reloading the data.
In addition to the standard indexes, you can configure indexes on individual elements and attributes in a database. You can create range indexes and/or lexicons on individual elements or attributes in a database. For information on these indexes, see Range Indexes and Lexicons. You can also create named fields which can explicitly include or exclude specified elements. For details on fields, see Fields Database Settings.
This section describes the text indexes in MarkLogic Server.