What is full text search Index in MySQL???
It is one of the index type FULL TEXT in MySQL.
In MySQL 5.6 the InnoDB storage engines have the features of Full text search index option.
There are three ways of search option in full text index,
I) Natural language
II) Boolean mode
III) Query expansion
I)Natural Language Full text searches:
It is one of the index type FULL TEXT in MySQL.
If we want to search for a word we use LIKE ‘%word%’,
if more than one word we use like
‘%word1%word2%’, what many people don’t know is for this kind of search
is expensive and not optimized to our MySQL, in this cases we solve our
problems with Full Text Index.
In MySQL 5.6 the InnoDB storage engines have the features of Full text search index option.
Full-text indexes can be used only with
InnoDB
or
MyISAM
tables, and can be created
only for CHAR
,
VARCHAR
, or
TEXT
columns.
Full-text searching is performed using
MATCH()...AGAINST
() syntax.
MATCH()
takes a comma-separated
list that names the columns to be searched.
AGAINST()
takes a string to search for, and an
optional modifier that indicates what type of search to perform.I)Natural Language Full text searches:
It search the given word alone in the table.If there is no the given word means it will show as empty sets.The
search string is given as the argument to
AGAINST()
. For each row in the table,
MATCH()
returns a relevance
value; that is, a similarity measure between the search string
and the text in that row in the columns named in the
MATCH()
list.
Eg:
Create a database and table in it.
Here the engine is InnoDB and next insert the values.
See all the datas in the table.
Now we check the natural language full text search.Here,we need to
search the data containing the word 'India' so the natural language mode
shows the resemblance world of India in the table.It scan the full rows and shows
it below.
In
the above,three rows are affected among five rows because the word
India contains only in those rows alone.If we need to search more than
two word means see below,
The default minimum length is 4 characters. You can change the min and max word length with the variables
ft_min_word_len
and ft_max_word_len.
II)Boolean Mode full text searches:
Sometimes
we need to see particular word containing rows but it should not have
some other words too during that time we can use this type of searching option.The
+
and -
operators indicate
that a word is required to be present or absent, respectively,
for a match to occur.
Eg:
Here,I shown the table containing the word as India but it should not have the word South.
Here,I shown the table which contain the word city and it should not have the word India.
III) Query expansion full text searches
In this search it
will show the resemblance word from the given word.In this it first scan
and show the given word and again scan to see any resemblance word like
this to show in the table.It will show the words that are commonly found with the words in the query.
Eg:
Here its shows the resemblance word and the given word from the table.
These are the types of Full text search Engines in MySQL and its functions.
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