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    • v2

Create

This operation creates a new database.

POST
/v2/vectordb/databases/create
Cluster Endpoint

The base URL for this API is in the following format:

http://localhost:19530

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
Parameters
Authorizationstringheaderrequired

The authentication token should be a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

Example Value: Bearer {{TOKEN}}
Request Bodyapplication/json
dbNamestringrequired

The name of the new database.

propertiesobject

Additional properties for the new database. For example, you can set the mmap.enabled property to true to enable the mmap feature for the collections in the database.

export TOKEN="root:Milvus"


curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/databases/create" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "dbName": "test",
    "properties": {
        "mmap.enabled": true
    }
}'
Responses200 - application/json
codeinteger

Response code.

dataobject

Response payload which is an empty object.

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

{
    "code": 0,
    "data": {}
}