Create Qdrant payload field indexes (keyword, integer, float, bool, datetime, uuid, full-text, geo) with correct tokenizer and on-disk settings
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Simple index: PUT /collections/{collection_name}/index with {"field_name":"city","field_schema":"keyword"}. Supported simple schemas: keyword, integer, float, bool, geo, datetime, uuid.
Use field_schema "uuid" for UUID-formatted string fields instead of "keyword" — a more memory-efficient keyword-like index (v1.11.0+).
Use "bool" to enable Match filtering on boolean fields (v1.4.0+) and "datetime" to enable Range filtering on RFC 3339 timestamps (v1.8.0+).
Tune integer indexes with the parameterized form: {"field_name":"age","field_schema":{"type":"integer","lookup":false,"range":true}} to build only the access patterns you need (v1.8.0+).
Full-text index: {"field_name":"description","field_schema":{"type":"text","tokenizer":"word","min_token_len":2,"max_token_len":10,"lowercase":true}}. Tokenizers: word (default), whitespace, prefix (autocomplete), multilingual (CJK and other non-space-delimited languages).
Optional full-text tuning: "lowercase":false for case-sensitive matching, "ascii_folding":true to normalize accents (v1.16.0+), a Snowball "stemmer", language-based or custom "stopwords", and "phrase_matching":true for exact-phrase queries.
Move any index type to disk with {"field_schema":{"type":"keyword","on_disk":true}} (v1.11.0+) to trade RAM for disk I/O.
Suppress extra filter-aware HNSW edges on a high-cardinality field with {"field_schema":{"type":"keyword","enable_hnsw":false}} (v1.17.0+).
Drop an index: DELETE /collections/{collection_name}/index/{field_name}.
Verified against Qdrant docs as of 2026-08-02 (docs describe v1.18.x). Feature gates: bool v1.4.0, parameterized integer and datetime v1.8.0, uuid and on-disk payload index v1.11.0, ascii_folding v1.16.0, enable_hnsw v1.17.0.
Each index costs RAM and CPU. Docs explicitly caution against indexing every payload field — index only fields you actually filter on.
Create indexes before ingesting: the filterable HNSW index only gains filter-aware edges from indexes that existed at build time, so post-ingest indexing may need a segment rebuild to deliver the speedup.
Tokenizer choice silently changes match results. Using "word" on CJK text produces poor or empty full-text matches with no error.
on_disk:true cuts RAM but the docs note it measurably increases cold-request latency. Do not enable it on latency-sensitive hot-path fields.
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