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Mastering MongoDB 4.x - Second Edition
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Mastering MongoDB 4.x - Second Edition

by Alex Giamas
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
11h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Index intersection

Index intersection refers to the concept of using more than one index to fulfill a query. This was added fairly recently, and is not perfect yet; however we can exploit it to consolidate our indexes.

We can verify whether an index intersection happened in a query by using explain() on the query and witnessing an AND_SORTED or AND_HASH stage in the executed query plan.

Index intersection can happen when we use OR ($or) queries, by using a different index for each OR clause. Index intersection can happen when we use AND queries, and we have either complete indexes for each AND clause or index prefixes for some (or all) of the clauses.

For example, consider a query on our books collection, as follows:

> db.books.find({ "isbn":"101", ...
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