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Tablestore:Full-text search

Last Updated:Jun 22, 2026

Tablestore provides match query and match phrase query for full-text search. Full-text search matches data based on tokens and highlights matched keywords in query results.

Background information

When you create a search index, you can specify a Tokenization method for Text fields. The default is single-word tokenization.

Data query

The following table describes the data query features for full-text search.

Feature

Description

Scenario

Match query

Match query searches for data that contains a specific keyword based on approximate matches. Tablestore tokenizes Text field values and query keywords based on the specified tokenization method, then matches data against the tokens.

Big data analytics, content search, knowledge management, social media analysis, log analysis, intelligent Q&A systems, and compliance review.

Match phrase query

Match phrase query searches for data that contains a specific keyword whose tokens appear in a specific order. A row meets the query conditions only when the token order and positions in the row match those in the tokenized keyword.

Big data analytics, content search, and intelligent recommendation.

Data processing

The following table describes the data processing features for full-text search.

Feature

Description

Highlight the query results

The highlight feature highlights text that matches or relates to query strings in the results, helping you quickly locate relevant content.