Search index: Azure Search

Azure search is the recommended full-text search solution for Cosmos DB.

Linkurious Enterprise requires an index on nodes to enable full-text search. If you do not have a configured index yet, you can create one via the Azure portal.

The following conditions must be met on the index, for Linkurious Enterprise to be able to use it for search:

the label field must be marked as filterable;
the property declared in graphdb.primaryKey must be marked as retrievable;
the "id" property must be marked as retrievable.

⚠️ Any data transformation (e.g. base64 encoding) during the indexing process is not supported as this will cause the retrieval of unexpected data and might break the search feature.

Additionally, you can create an index on edges if you want search them as well with Linkurious Enterprise.

To edit the AzureSearch data-source configuration, you can either use the Web user-interface or edit the configuration file located at linkurious/data/config/production.json.

Example configuration:

{
  "dataSources": [
    {
      "graphdb": {
        "vendor": "cosmosDb",
        "url": "https://your-service.gremlin.cosmosdb.azure.com:443/",
        "database": "your-graph-database",
        "collection":  "your-collection",
        "primaryKey": "your-account-primary-key"
      },
      "index": {
        "vendor": "azureSearch",
        "url": "https://your-search-service.search.windows.net",
        "apiKey": "your-search-service-admin-api-key",
        "nodeIndexName": "your-node-index-name",
        "edgeIndexName": "your-edge-index-name"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Supported index options with Azure search:

url (required): URL of the search service
apiKey (required): Primary Admin Key of the search service
nodeIndexName (required): Name of the node index of your graph database
edgeIndexName (optional): Name of the edge index of your graph database

Please refer to the Azure search online documentation for details on how to load data into Azure search.

Note that today, in Azure Search, it's not possible to search on numbers or dates. If you are interested in this feature, please get in touch.

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