ragflow/docs/develop/switch_doc_engine.md

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Switch Document Engine

Switch your doc engine from Elasticsearch to Infinity.

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RAGFlow uses Elasticsearch by default for storing full text and vectors. To switch to Infinity, follow these steps:

1. Back up the existing deployment before switching engines. Switching engines creates a new document-index store; reindex the documents after startup.

2. Stop the Go deployment:

   docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yml down
   

:::caution WARNING Do not add -v unless you intentionally want to delete the deployment's data volumes. :::

3. Set DOC_ENGINE=infinity in docker/.env.

4. Start the Go deployment:

   docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d
   

5. Reindex the documents and verify retrieval before retiring the previous document-engine data.