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Nilotpal
Nilotpal

Reputation: 3588

What is the difference between arango search and filter keyword

Can somebody explain in details on difference between :

Search and filter keyword

I have already gone through https://www.arangodb.com/learn/search/tutorial/ -> SEARCH vs FILTER

Do anybody has any other experience on the difference?

Thanks, Nilotpal

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (1)

Kaveh Vahedipour
Kaveh Vahedipour

Reputation: 3477

FILTER corresponds to the WHERE clause in SQL. It does, what the name says. It uses all sorts of arithmetic and AQL operators to filter the search result. It can make use of regular indexes. There is no ranking of filtered results. Filters operate on single collection result sets.

SEARCH offers a full fledged search engine very much like what you would get from regular search engines like Google's page ranking based on a grammar that you could formulate on your own and can operate on multiple collection contents. Its most natural functionality would be a full text search and ranking. In that use it would be a much more powerful version of the full-text index. But it can do much more: normalisation, tokenisation based on language ...

The list goes on and on. Please refer to the documentation of search here:

https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/arangosearch.html

Upvotes: 3

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