Allow createSearchIndex to work with MongoDB Community Server 8.2

[thaoula]

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🚀 Feature Proposal

Hi Team,

MongoDB 8.2 has added preview support for Search and Vector indexes in the Community and Enterprise editions.

This feature request is about extending the existing Mongoose createSearchIndex infrastructure to support community, enterprise and Atlas based MongoDB deployments. Potentially, also supporting vector search (if possible)
https://mongoosejs.com/docs/api/model.html#Model.createSearchIndex()

MongoDB released v8.2 with support for search and vector search running locally.
https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/product-release-announcements/supercharge-self-managed-apps-search-vector-search-capabilities

Motivation

The reason for this proposal is to facilitate local development of search and AI rag applications which was not possible without connect to Atlas.

Example

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[vkarpov15]

According to the test cases we added in e8913ba, there shouldn't be anything for Mongoose to do to support search indexes in community server. You can use Model.createSearchIndexes(), Model.listSearchIndexes(), Model.dropSearchIndex(), and Schema.prototype.searchIndex() to perform CRUD on search indexes, and Mongoose already has $search and $vectorSearch as pipeline stages in TypeScript.

[thaoula]

Hi @vkarpov15,

Thanks for replying as always.

Just conforming, this will require a newer Mongodb driver and Mongoose 8.19?

Kind regards,
Tarek

[vkarpov15]

No need to upgrade driver or Mongoose AFAIK, search indexes should also work in 8.18