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by malisper 3546 days ago
Is there a way to index JSON in MySQL without creating one index per unique field?
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The mapping is not strictly one index per field, but a virtual column expression must map to a MySQL type. So depending on the use-case you may be able to use more complicated expressions to limit indexes.

But to expand your question, there are two FRs we are looking at:

1) Inverted (aka FULLTEXT) indexes on JSON documents 2) Multi-value indexes