Database Stemming is Off, Word Searches On By Default
In MarkLogic 9 and later, when you create a new database, the stemmed searches property is off by default. In MarkLogic 8 and earlier, the default is basic.
In MarkLogic 9 and later, when you create a new database, word searches are enabled by default. In MarkLogic 8 and earlier releases, word searches were disabled by default.
To achieve the pre-MarkLogic 9 default behavior, configure your database to turn off stemmed searches and set word searches to true.
These changes only affect databases you create after upgrading to MarkLogic 9. Databases that exist when you upgrade will retain their previous settings.