AWS documentdb documentation change

Service: documentdb · 2026-03-31 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/search.md

Summary

Added documentation for the $search operator in Amazon DocumentDB, including examples in MongoDB Shell, Node.js, and Python

Security assessment

This change adds documentation for a new text search feature ($search operator) in DocumentDB version 5.0. The code examples include TLS connection parameters (tls=true, tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem) which are standard security practices for encrypted connections, but this is not documenting a new security feature or addressing a specific security vulnerability. The change appears to be routine feature documentation.

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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
+
+# $search
+
+New from version 5.0.
+
+The `$search` operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to provide text search capabilities.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+None
+
+## Example (MongoDB Shell)
+
+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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+
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