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AWS documentdb documentation change

Service: documentdb · 2026-03-28 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/search.md

Summary

Entire documentation page for the $search operator was removed, including all content, examples, and code samples

Security assessment

This change removes documentation for the $search operator but provides no evidence of security vulnerability remediation. The removal could be due to feature deprecation, documentation restructuring, or other non-security reasons. No security warnings, vulnerabilities, or security-related content is mentioned in the removed text.

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-[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
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-Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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-# $search
-
-New from version 5.0.
-
-The `$search` operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to provide text search capabilities.
-
-**Parameters**
-
-None
-
-## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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-The following example demonstrates how to use the `$search` operator to perform a text search query.
-
-**Create sample documents**
-    
-    
-    db.textcollection.createIndex({"description": "text"});
-    
-    db.textcollection.insertMany([
-      { _id: 1, name: "John Doe", description: "This is a sample document about John Doe." },
-      { _id: 2, name: "Jane Smith", description: "This is a sample document about Jane Smith." },
-      { _id: 3, name: "Bob Johnson", description: "This is a sample document about Bob Johnson." },
-      { _id: 4, name: "Jon Jeffries", description: "This is a sample document about Jon Jeffries." }
-    ]);
-
-**Query example**
-    
-    
-    db.textcollection.find(
-      { $text: { $search: "John" } }
-    );
-
-**Output**
-    
-    
-    [
-      {
-        _id: 1,
-        name: 'John Doe',
-        description: 'This is a sample document about John Doe.'
-      }
-    ]
-
-## Code examples
-
-To view a code example for using the `$search` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
-
-Node.js
-    
-    
-    
-    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
-    
-    async function findWithText() {
-      const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
-      const db = client.db('test');
-      const collection = db.collection('textcollection');
-    
-      const result = await collection.find(
-        { $text: { $search: "John" } }
-      ).sort({ score: { $meta: "textScore" } }).toArray();
-    
-      console.log(result);
-      client.close();
-    }
-    
-    findWithText();
-
-Python
-    
-    
-    
-    from pymongo import MongoClient
-    
-    def find_with_text():
-        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
-        db = client['test']
-        collection = db['textcollection']
-    
-        result = list(collection.find(
-            { '$text': { '$search': 'John' } }
-        ))
-    
-        print(result)
-        client.close()
-    
-    find_with_text()
-
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-[Document Conventions](/general/latest/gr/docconventions.html)
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-$sample
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-$second
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