This page shows you how to create a collection with various configurations.

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Create a collection from scratch

The simplest way to create a collection is to provide the collection name and the field indexConfigs.

LAMBDADB_PROJECT_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -i -X POST "https://{baseUrl}/projects/{projectName}/collections" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LAMBDADB_PROJECT_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
        "collectionName": "example-collection",
        "indexConfigs": {
          "url": {
            "type": "keyword"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "keyword"
          }
        }
      }'

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Create a collection cloned from another collection

You can create a collection cloned from an existing collection by simply providing information related to the source collection.

LAMBDADB_TARGET_PROJECT_API_KEY="YOUR_TARGET_API_KEY"
LAMBDADB_SOURCE_PROJECT_API_KEY="YOUR_SOURCE_API_KEY"

curl -i -X POST "https://{baseUrl}/projects/{projectName}/collections" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LAMBDADB_TARGET_PROJECT_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
        "collectionName": "example-collection",
        "sourceProjectId": "example-source-project-id",
        "sourceProjectApiKey": $LAMBDADB_SOURCE_PROJECT_API_KEY,
        "sourceIndexName": "example-source-collection-name"
      }'

As shown above example, specifying indexConfigs is optional when cloning a collection. You can pass indexConfigs object only with additional indexConfigs based on the original collection’s indexConfigs. Deleting or modifying the original collection’s indexConfigs is not allowed.