Index¶

An index belongs to a specific vector field in a collection, it helps accelerating search.

Constructor¶

Constructor	Description
Index()	Create index on a specified column according to the index parameters.

API	Description
params	Return the index params.
collection_name	Return corresponding collection name.
field_name	Return corresponding field name.
drop	Drop index and its corresponding index files.

class pymilvus.Index(collection, field_name, index_params, **kwargs)¶

property params¶

Returns the index parameters.

property collection_name¶

Returns the corresponding collection name.

property field_name¶

Returns the corresponding field name.

drop(timeout=None, **kwargs)¶

Drop an index and its corresponding index files.

Parameters: timeout (float) -- An optional duration of time in seconds to allow for the RPC. When timeout is set to None, client waits until server response or error occur
Raises: IndexNotExistException -- If the specified index does not exist.