WARNING: This functionality is in beta stage. Use it with caution.

The JOIN SQL statement in Manticore Search allows combining rows from two tables based on a related column between them.

SELECT product, customers.email, customers.name, customers.address
FROM orders
LEFT JOIN customers
ON customers.id = orders.customer_id
WHERE MATCH('maple', customers)
ORDER BY customers.email ASC;

+----------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
| product  | customers.email   | customers.name | customers.address |
+----------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
| Phone    | NULL              | NULL           | NULL              |
| Monitor  | NULL              | NULL           | NULL              |
| Keyboard | NULL              | NULL           | NULL              |
| Laptop   | [email protected] | Alice Johnson  | 123 Maple St      |
| Tablet   | [email protected] | Alice Johnson  | 123 Maple St      |
+----------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

SELECT product, customers.email, customers.name, customers.address
FROM orders
INNER JOIN customers
ON customers.id = orders.customer_id
WHERE MATCH('maple', customers)
ORDER BY customers.email asc;

+---------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
| product | customers.email   | customers.name | customers.address |
+---------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
| Laptop  | [email protected] | Alice Johnson  | 123 Maple St      |
| Tablet  | [email protected] | Alice Johnson  | 123 Maple St      |
+---------+-------------------+----------------+-------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

SELECT orders.product, name, orders.details.price, orders.tags
FROM customers
LEFT JOIN orders
ON customers.id = orders.customer_id
WHERE orders.details.price > 500
AND MATCH('laptop|phone|monitor', orders)
ORDER BY orders.id ASC
FACET orders.details.warranty;

+----------------+---------------+----------------------+-------------+
| orders.product | name          | orders.details.price | orders.tags |
+----------------+---------------+----------------------+-------------+
| Laptop         | Alice Johnson |                 1200 | 101,102     |
| Phone          | Bob Smith     |                  800 | 103         |
+----------------+---------------+----------------------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)
--- 2 out of 2 results in 0ms ---

+-------------------------+----------+
| orders.details.warranty | count(*) |
+-------------------------+----------+
| 2 years                 |        1 |
| 1 year                  |        1 |
+-------------------------+----------+
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

• Field selection: When selecting fields from two tables in a JOIN, you must not prefix fields from the left table but must prefix fields from the right table. Correct usage is SELECT field_name, right_table.field_name FROM ..., not SELECT left_table.field_name, right_table.field_name FROM ....
• JOIN conditions: Always explicitly specify the table names in your JOIN conditions. Use the format JOIN ON table_name.some_field = another_table_name.some_field. Omitting table names from the join condition is not supported.
• Using expressions with JOINs: When using expressions that combine fields from both joined tables, you must alias the result of the expression. For instance, instead of SELECT *, (nums2.n + 3) * n FROM nums LEFT JOIN nums2 ON nums2.id = nums.num2_id, you should write SELECT *, (nums2.n + 3) AS x, x * n FROM nums LEFT JOIN nums2 ON nums2.id = nums.num2_id.
• Filtering on aliased expressions: When you alias an expression involving fields from both tables (e.g., expr(field_from_left_table, field_from_right_table) AS some_alias), note that you cannot use this alias for filtering in the WHERE clause.
• Using ANY with MVA: The ANY() function with multi-valued attributes requires specific handling when used with JOINs. Direct filtering on multi-valued attributes in a WHERE clause is not supported when performing a JOIN. Instead, you must alias the multi-valued attribute from the joined table and use this alias for the ANY() condition. For example:

  SELECT *, t2.m AS alias
  FROM t
  LEFT JOIN t2 ON t.id = t2.t_id
  WHERE ANY(alias) IN (3, 5)

Manticore enables the use of arbitrary arithmetic expressions through both SQL and HTTP, incorporating attribute values, internal attributes (document ID and relevance weight), arithmetic operations, several built-in functions, and user-defined functions. Below is the complete reference list for quick access.

+, -, *, /, %, DIV, MOD

Standard arithmetic operators are available. Arithmetic calculations involving these operators can be executed in three different modes:

1. using single-precision, 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point values (default),
2. using signed 32-bit integers,
3. using 64-bit signed integers.

The expression parser automatically switches to integer mode if no operations result in a floating point value. Otherwise, it uses the default floating point mode. For example, a+b will be computed using 32-bit integers if both arguments are 32-bit integers; or using 64-bit integers if both arguments are integers but one of them is 64-bit; or in floats otherwise. However, a/b or sqrt(a) will always be computed in floats, as these operations return a non-integer result. To avoid this, you can use IDIV(a,b) or a DIV b form. Additionally, a*b will not automatically promote to 64-bit when arguments are 32-bit. To enforce 64-bit results, use BIGINT(), but note that if non-integer operations are present, BIGINT() will simply be ignored.

<, > <=, >=, =, <>

The comparison operators return 1.0 when the condition is true and 0.0 otherwise. For example, (a=b)+3 evaluates to 4 when attribute a is equal to attribute b, and to 3 when a is not. Unlike MySQL, the equality comparisons (i.e., = and <> operators) include a small equality threshold (1e-6 by default). If the difference between the compared values is within the threshold, they are considered equal.

The BETWEEN and IN operators, in the case of multi-value attributes, return true if at least one value matches the condition (similar to ANY()). The IN operator does not support JSON attributes. The IS (NOT) NULL operator is supported only for JSON attributes.

AND, OR, NOT

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) behave as expected. They are left-associative and have the lowest priority compared to other operators. NOT has higher priority than AND and OR but still less than any other operator. AND and OR share the same priority, so using parentheses is recommended to avoid confusion in complex expressions.

&, |

These operators perform bitwise AND and OR respectively. The operands must be of integer types.

• ABS()
• ALL()
• ANY()
• ATAN2()
• BIGINT()
• BITDOT()
• BM25F()
• CEIL()
• CONCAT()
• CONTAINS()
• COS()
• CRC32()
• DATE_HISTOGRAM()
• DATE_RANGE()
• DAY()
• DOUBLE()
• EXP()
• FIBONACCI()
• FLOOR()
• GEODIST()
• GEOPOLY2D()
• GREATEST()
• HOUR()
• HISTOGRAM()
• IDIV()
• IF()
• IN()
• INDEXOF()
• INTEGER()
• INTERVAL()
• LAST_INSERT_ID()
• LEAST()
• LENGTH()
• LN()
• LOG10()
• LOG2()
• MAX()
• MIN()
• MINUTE()
• MIN_TOP_SORTVAL()
• MIN_TOP_WEIGHT()
• MONTH()
• NOW()
• PACKEDFACTORS()
• POLY2D()
• POW()
• RAND()
• RANGE()
• REGEX()
• REMAP()
• SECOND()
• SIN()
• SINT()
• SQRT()
• SUBSTRING_INDEX()
• TO_STRING()
• UINT()
• YEAR()
• YEARMONTH()
• YEARMONTHDAY()
• WEIGHT()

In the HTTP JSON interface, expressions are supported via script_fields and expressions.

{
    "index": "test",
    "query": {
        "match_all": {}
    }, "script_fields": {
        "add_all": {
            "script": {
                "inline": "( gid * 10 ) | crc32(title)"
            }
        },
        "title_len": {
            "script": {
                "inline": "crc32(title)"
            }
        }
    }
}

{
    "index":"movies_rt",
    "script_fields":{
        "cond1":{
            "script":{
                "inline":"actor_2_facebook_likes =296 OR movie_facebook_likes =37000"
            }
        },
        "cond2":{
            "script":{
                "inline":"IF (IN (content_rating,'TV-PG','PG'),2, IF(IN(content_rating,'TV-14','PG-13'),1,0))"
            }
        }
    },
    "limit":10,
    "sort":[
        {
            "cond2":"desc"
        },
        {
            "actor_1_name":"asc"
        },
        {
            "actor_2_name":"desc"
        }
    ],
    "profile":true,
    "query":{
        "bool":{
            "must":[
                {
                    "match":{
                        "*":"star"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "equals":{
                        "cond1":1
                    }
                }
            ],
            "must_not":[
                {
                    "equals":{
                        "content_rating":"R"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

By default, expression values are included in the _source array of the result set. If the source is selective (see Source selection), the expression name can be added to the _source parameter in the request. Note, the names of the expressions must be in lowercase.

{
  "index": "test",
  "query": { "match_all": {} },
  "expressions":
  {
      "add_all": "( gid * 10 ) | crc32(title)",
      "title_len": "crc32(title)"
  }
}

The SQL SELECT clause and the HTTP /search endpoint support a number of options that can be used to fine-tune search behavior.

SELECT ... [OPTION <optionname>=<value> [ , ... ]] [/*+ [NO_][ColumnarScan|DocidIndex|SecondaryIndex(<attribute>[,...])]] /*]

POST /search
{   
    "index" : "index_name",
    "options":   
    {
        "optionname": "value",
        "optionname2": <value2>
    }
}

SELECT * FROM test WHERE MATCH('@title hello @body world')
OPTION ranker=bm25, max_matches=3000,
field_weights=(title=10, body=3), agent_query_timeout=10000

POST /search
{   
    "index" : "test",
    "query": {
      "match": {
        "title": "hello"
      },
      "match": {
        "body": "world"     
      }
    },
    "options":   
    {
        "ranker": "bm25",
        "max_matches": 3000,
        "field_weights": {
            "title": 10,
            "body": 3
        },
        "agent_query_timeout": 10000
    }
}

+------+-------+-------+
| id   | title | body  |
+------+-------+-------+
|    1 | hello | world |
+------+-------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

{
  "took": 0,
  "timed_out": false,
  "hits": {
    "total": 1,
    "total_relation": "eq",
    "hits": [
      {
        "_id": 1,
        "_score": 10500,
        "_source": {
          "title": "hello",
          "body": "world"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Supported options are:

Integer. Enables or disables guaranteed aggregate accuracy when running groupby queries in multiple threads. Default is 0.

When running a groupby query, it can be run in parallel on a plain table with several pseudo shards (if pseudo_sharding is on). A similar approach works on RT tables. Each shard/chunk executes the query, but the number of groups is limited by max_matches. If the result sets from different shards/chunks have different groups, the group counts and aggregates may be inaccurate. Note that Manticore tries to increase max_matches up to max_matches_increase_threshold based on the number of unique values of the groupby attribute (retrieved from secondary indexes). If it succeeds, there will be no loss in accuracy.

However, if the number of unique values of the groupby attribute is high, further increasing max_matches may not be a good strategy because it can lead to a loss in performance and higher memory usage. Setting accurate_aggregation to 1 forces groupby searches to run in a single thread, which fixes the accuracy issue. Note that running in a single thread is only enforced when max_matches cannot be set high enough; otherwise, searches with accurate_aggregation=1 will still run in multiple threads.

Overall, setting accurate_aggregation to 1 ensures group count and aggregate accuracy in RT tables and plain tables with pseudo_sharding=1. The drawback is that searches will run slower since they will be forced to operate in a single thread.

However, if we have an RT table and a plain table containing the same data, and we run a query with accurate_aggregation=1, we might still receive different results. This occurs because the daemon might choose different max_matches settings for the RT and plain table due to the max_matches_increase_threshold setting.

Integer. Max time in milliseconds to wait for remote queries to complete, see this section.

0 or 1 (0 by default). boolean_simplify=1 enables simplifying the query to speed it up.

String, user comment that gets copied to a query log file.

Integer. Max found matches threshold. The value is selected automatically if not specified.

• N = 0 disables the threshold
• N > 0: instructs Manticore to stop looking for results as soon as it finds N documents.
• not set: Manticore will decide automatically what the value should be.

In case Manticore cannot calculate the exact matching documents count, you will see total_relation: gte in the query meta information, which means that the actual count is Greater Than or Equal to the total (total_found in SHOW META via SQL, hits.total in JSON via HTTP). If the total value is precise, you'll get total_relation: eq.

drop table if exists t
--------------

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

--------------
create table t(a int)
--------------

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)

--------------
insert into t(a) values(1),(2),(3),(1),(2),(3)
--------------

Query OK, 6 rows affected (0.00 sec)

--------------
select avg(a) from t option cutoff=1 facet a
--------------

+----------+
| avg(a)   |
+----------+
| 1.000000 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
--- 1 out of 1 results in 0ms ---

+------+----------+
| a    | count(*) |
+------+----------+
|    1 |        1 |
+------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
--- 1 out of 1 results in 0ms ---

--------------
select avg(a) from t facet a
--------------

+----------+
| avg(a)   |
+----------+
| 2.000000 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
--- 1 out of 1 results in 0ms ---

+------+----------+
| a    | count(*) |
+------+----------+
|    1 |        2 |
|    2 |        2 |
|    3 |        2 |
+------+----------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
--- 3 out of 3 results in 0ms ---

Integer. Default is 3500. This option sets the threshold below which counts returned by count distinct are guaranteed to be exact within a plain table.

Accepted values range from 500 to 15500. Values outside this range will be clamped.

When this option is set to 0, it enables an algorithm that ensures exact counts. This algorithm collects {group, value} pairs, sorts them, and periodically eliminates duplicates. The result is precise counts within a plain table. However, this approach is not suitable for high-cardinality datasets due to its high memory consumption and slow query execution.

When distinct_precision_threshold is set to a value greater than 0, Manticore employs a different algorithm. It loads counts into a hash table and returns the size of the table. If the hash table becomes too large, its contents are moved into a HyperLogLog data structure. At this point, the counts become approximate because HyperLogLog is a probabilistic algorithm. This approach maintains a fixed maximum memory usage per group, but there is a tradeoff in count accuracy.

The accuracy of the HyperLogLog and the threshold for converting from the hash table to HyperLogLog are derived from the distinct_precision_threshold setting. It's important to use this option with caution since doubling its value will also double the maximum memory required to calculate counts. The maximum memory usage can be roughly estimated using this formula: 64 * max_matches * distinct_precision_threshold, although in practice, count calculations often use less memory than the worst-case scenario.

0 or 1 (0 by default). Expands keywords with exact forms and/or stars when possible. Refer to expand_keywords for more details.

Named integer list (per-field user weights for ranking).

Example:

SELECT ... OPTION field_weights=(title=10, body=3)

Use global statistics (frequencies) from the global_idf file for IDF computations.

Quoted, comma-separated list of IDF computation flags. Known flags are:

• normalized: BM25 variant, idf = log((N-n+1)/n), as per Robertson et al
• plain: plain variant, idf = log(N/n), as per Sparck-Jones
• tfidf_normalized: additionally divide IDF by query word count, so that TF*IDF fits into [0, 1] range
• tfidf_unnormalized: do not additionally divide IDF by query word count where N is the collection size and n is the number of matched documents

The historically default IDF (Inverse Document Frequency) in Manticore is equivalent to OPTION idf='normalized,tfidf_normalized', and those normalizations may cause several undesired effects.

First, idf=normalized causes keyword penalization. For instance, if you search for the | something and the occurs in more than 50% of the documents, then documents with both keywords the and something will get less weight than documents with just one keyword something. Using OPTION idf=plain avoids this. Plain IDF varies in [0, log(N)] range, and keywords are never penalized; while the normalized IDF varies in [-log(N), log(N)] range, and too frequent keywords are penalized.

Second, idf=tfidf_normalized leads to IDF drift across queries. Historically, IDF was also divided by the query keyword count, ensuring the entire sum(tf*idf) across all keywords remained within the [0,1] range. However, this meant that queries like word1 and word1 | nonmatchingword2 would assign different weights to the exact same result set, as the IDFs for both word1 and nonmatchingword2 would be divided by 2. Using OPTION idf='tfidf_unnormalized' resolves this issue. Keep in mind that BM25, BM25A, BM25F() ranking factors will be adjusted accordingly when you disable this normalization.

IDF flags can be combined; plain and normalized are mutually exclusive; tfidf_unnormalized and tfidf_normalized are also mutually exclusive; and unspecified flags in such mutually exclusive groups default to their original settings. This means OPTION idf=plain is the same as specifying OPTION idf='plain,tfidf_normalized' in its entirety.

Named integer list. Per-table user weights for ranking.

0 or 1, automatically sum DFs over all local parts of a distributed table, ensuring consistent (and accurate) IDF across a locally sharded table. Enabled by default for disk chunks of the RT table. Query terms with wildcards are ignored.

0 or 1 (0 by default). Setting low_priority=1 executes the query with a lower priority, rescheduling its jobs 10 times less frequently than other queries with normal priority.

Integer. Per-query max matches value.

The maximum number of matches that the server retains in RAM for each table and can return to the client. The default is 1000.

Introduced to control and limit RAM usage, the max_matches setting determines how many matches will be kept in RAM while searching each table. Every match found is still processed, but only the best N of them will be retained in memory and returned to the client in the end. For example, suppose a table contains 2,000,000 matches for a query. It's rare that you would need to retrieve all of them. Instead, you need to scan all of them but only choose the "best" 500, for instance, based on some criteria (e.g., sorted by relevance, price, or other factors) and display those 500 matches to the end user in pages of 20 to 100 matches. Tracking only the best 500 matches is much more RAM and CPU efficient than keeping all 2,000,000 matches, sorting them, and then discarding everything but the first 20 needed for the search results page. max_matches controls the N in that "best N" amount.

This parameter significantly impacts per-query RAM and CPU usage. Values of 1,000 to 10,000 are generally acceptable, but higher limits should be used with caution. Carelessly increasing max_matches to 1,000,000 means that searchd will have to allocate and initialize a 1-million-entry matches buffer for every query. This will inevitably increase per-query RAM usage and, in some cases, can noticeably affect performance.

Refer to max_matches_increase_threshold for additional information on how it can influence the behavior of the max_matches option.

Integer. Sets the threshold that max_matches can be increased to. Default is 16384.

Manticore may increase max_matches to enhance groupby and/or aggregation accuracy when pseudo_sharding is enabled, and if it detects that the number of unique values of the groupby attribute is less than this threshold. Loss of accuracy may occur when pseudo-sharding executes the query in multiple threads or when an RT table conducts parallel searches in disk chunks.

If the number of unique values of the groupby attribute is less than the threshold, max_matches will be set to this number. Otherwise, the default max_matches will be used.

If max_matches was explicitly set in query options, this threshold has no effect.

Keep in mind that if this threshold is set too high, it will result in increased memory consumption and general performance degradation.

You can also enforce a guaranteed groupby/aggregate accuracy mode using the accurate_aggregation option.

Sets the maximum search query time in milliseconds. Must be a non-negative integer. The default value is 0, which means "do not limit." Local search queries will be stopped once the specified time has elapsed. Note that if you're performing a search that queries multiple local tables, this limit applies to each table separately. Be aware that this may slightly increase the query's response time due to the overhead caused by constantly tracking whether it's time to stop the query.

Integer. Maximum predicted search time; see predicted_time_costs.

none allows replacing all query terms with their exact forms if the table was built with index_exact_words enabled. This is useful for preventing stemming or lemmatizing query terms.

MySQL [(none)]> select * from tbl where match('-donald');
ERROR 1064 (42000): index t: query error: query is non-computable (single NOT operator)
MySQL [(none)]> select * from t where match('-donald') option not_terms_only_allowed=1;
+---------------------+-----------+
| id                  | field     |
+---------------------+-----------+
| 1658178727135150081 | smth else |
+---------------------+-----------+

Choose from the following options:

• proximity_bm25
• bm25
• none
• wordcount
• proximity
• matchany
• fieldmask
• sph04
• expr
• export

For more details on each ranker, refer to Search results ranking.

Allows you to specify a specific integer seed value for an ORDER BY RAND() query, for example: ... OPTION rand_seed=1234. By default, a new and different seed value is autogenerated for every query.

Integer. Distributed retries count.

Integer. Distributed retry delay, in milliseconds.

• pq - priority queue, set by default
• kbuffer - provides faster sorting for already pre-sorted data, e.g., table data sorted by id The result set is the same in both cases; choosing one option or the other may simply improve (or worsen) performance.

Limits the max number of threads used for current query processing. Default - no limit (the query can occupy all threads as defined globally). For a batch of queries, the option must be attached to the very first query in the batch, and it is then applied when the working queue is created and is effective for the entire batch. This option has the same meaning as the option max_threads_per_query, but is applied only to the current query or batch of queries.

Quoted, colon-separated string of library name:plugin name:optional string of settings. A query-time token filter is created for each search when full-text is invoked by every table involved, allowing you to implement a custom tokenizer that generates tokens according to custom rules.

SELECT * FROM index WHERE MATCH ('yes@no') OPTION token_filter='mylib.so:blend:@'

Restricts the maximum number of expanded keywords for a single wildcard, with a default value of 0 indicating no limit. For additional details, refer to expansion_limit.

SELECT * FROM students where age > 21 /*+ SecondaryIndex(age) */

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