Indexing in MongoDB using Python
By creating indexes in a MongoDB collection, query performance is enhanced because they store the information in such a manner that traversing it becomes easier and efficient. There is no need for a full scan as MongoDB can search the query through indexes. Thus it restricts the number of documents that need to be checked for query criteria.
Syntax– create_index([str1, direction], [str1, direction]……., optional)
Parameters are:
- str : string used for naming index, it can be one or more than one
- direction : can be one or many directions, it has to be one of these directions- descending, ascending, hashed, geosphere, geohaystack, geo2d or text
Example 1:
Python3
from pymongo import MongoClient# Create a pymongo client client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017) # database instance db = client['GFG'] # collection instance doc = db['Student'] # Creating a single field indexres = doc.create_index("index_created")print(res) |
Output:
index_created_1
Example 2:
Python3
from pymongo import MongoClient# Create a pymongo client client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017) # database instance db = client['GFG'] # collection instance doc = db['Student'] # Creating a single field index in descending orderres = doc.create_index([ ("index_descending", -1) ])print(res) |
Output:
index_descending_-1
Example 3:
Python3
from pymongo import MongoClient,, ASCENDING, DESCENDING # Create a pymongo client client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017) # database instance db = client['GFG'] # collection instance doc = db['Student'] # Creating a compund field index in descending orderres = doc.create_index([("ascending_index", 1),("second_descnding_indexed", DESCENDING)])print(res) |
Output:
ascending_index_1 second_descnding_indexed_DESCENDING
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