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  1. Drivers
  2. DRIVERS-816

Hidden Indexes

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      Following the completion of this project:

      • An index can be marked as "hidden", meaning that it is not available for consideration by the planner. While hidden, the index cannot be used by any active index filters, and any operations which hint the index will return an exception to the user. TTL indexes which are hidden will be unavailable for queries, but will continue to facilitate deletion of outdated documents.
      • An index can be hidden in one of two ways:
        • The "createIndexes" command now allows a new boolean option, "hidden", to be included with each index spec. If true, then the index will be marked hidden as soon as it has completed building.
        • An existing index can be hidden or unhidden using the "collMod" command's "index" parameter, whose argument (a document of options) now permits a new boolean field called "hidden".
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      Following the completion of this project: An index can be marked as "hidden", meaning that it is not available for consideration by the planner. While hidden, the index cannot be used by any active index filters, and any operations which hint the index will return an exception to the user. TTL indexes which are hidden will be unavailable for queries, but will continue to facilitate deletion of outdated documents. An index can be hidden in one of two ways: The "createIndexes" command now allows a new boolean option, "hidden", to be included with each index spec. If true, then the index will be marked hidden as soon as it has completed building. An existing index can be hidden or unhidden using the "collMod" command's "index" parameter, whose argument (a document of options) now permits a new boolean field called "hidden".
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      Key Status/Resolution FixVersion
      CDRIVER-3646 Works as Designed
      CXX-2007 Fixed 3.6.0
      CSHARP-3086 Fixed 2.12.0
      GODRIVER-1600 Fixed 1.4.0
      JAVA-3717 Fixed 4.1.0
      NODE-2591 Fixed 4.0.0
      MOTOR-541 Duplicate
      PYTHON-2219 Fixed 3.11
      PHPLIB-575 Works as Designed
      RUBY-2243 Fixed 2.13.0
      RUST-399 Done
      SWIFT-828 Fixed 1.1.0
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      TBD when the project completes.

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      Summary

      This project implements functionality to allow indexes to be hidden from the query planner.

      Motivation

      As MongoDB users evolve schemas and tune performance, they are often in a position where dropping an index could improve query performance and reduce collection overhead. However, dropping an index comes with the risk that an application or script may depend on an index for acceptable performance and recreating can take substantial time.

      Allowing users to hide an index provides the opportunity to evaluate impact on user workloads. Restoring the index can then be done quickly, without having to undergo the time and expense of a full index build.

      Additionally, adding an index can cause a negative change in performance, if the query planner starts using the new index over a preferable existing index. Creating an index that is hidden on build completion allows users to make it visible at a suitable time for evaluation.

      Hiding an index only allows for plan selection evaluation and does not reduce the cost of maintenance. Index removal will still be required to reclaim disk space and improve write performance.

      Cast of Characters

      • Product Owner: Katya Kamenieva
      • Project Lead: James Wahlin
      • Program Manager: Craig Homa

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      Scope Document
      Technical Design Document

       

      Specs commit: https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/commit/fafb0076e3c2ee8c35497bd1260c1cfc672c4919

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