Skip to content
Closed
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Create Indexes to Support Queries
For commonly issued queries, create :doc:`indexes </indexes>`. If a
query searches multiple fields, create a :ref:`compound index
<index-type-compound>`. Scanning an index is much faster than scanning a
collection. The indexes structures are smaller than the documents
reference, and store references in order.
collection. The index structures are smaller than the documents they
reference, and these references are stored in order.

.. example:: If you have a ``posts`` collection containing blog posts,
and if you regularly issue a query that sorts on the ``author_name``
Expand Down