How to do a Case Insensitive search on Azure DocumentDb?

Question

is it possible to perform a case insensitive search on DocumnetDb?

Let\'s say I have a record with \'name\' key and value as \"Timbaktu\"

This will work:

Answer 1

There are two ways to do this. 1. use the built-in LOWER/UPPER function, for example,

select * from json j where LOWER(j.name) = 'timbaktu'

This will require a scan though. Another more efficient way is to store a "canonicalized" form e.g. lowercase and use that for querying. For example, the JSON would be

{ name: "Timbaktu", nameLowerCase: "timbaktu" }

Then use it for querying like:

select * from json j WHERE j.nameLowerCase = "timbaktu"

Hope this helps.