Please support on-prem installations
Can we get Search on-prem? Is this always going to be an Atlas-only feature?

As it stands today, we are not planning to support on-premise. Maintaining a single deployment model allows us to quickly deliver features to support more and more customers’ workloads with a leading search engine that is an improvement on predecessors. Atlas Search is Atlas-only for now.
We have a number of features that can make mostly-local development easier. Please let us know if you have questions.
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Hardik commented
Just because of this we have to maintain elastic search along with mongodb. :(
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Paul commented
We really need this feature as well. Not being able to run it locally means we can't fully move over parts of our system to using it.
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Tom commented
We really need this feature for our development as well, having this only available remotely blocks us from using proper automated tests and it slows down local development.
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Alex commented
We need this feature in an on-premises solution. We have a quick search in our application that scans fields like first name, last name, date of birth, street, zip code, etc.. A text index is perfect for this. But when the user enters something into the quick search, the results should be displayed immediately. For this use case we need the possibility to search for prefixes, too.
Unfortunately this feature is only available in Atlas. However, this feature is very important for our application. Due to Google and co this kind of search is expected by our customers.
We would appreciate it very much if this feature would be available on-prem, too.
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AdminTim Frietas (Admin, MongoDB) commented
For local testing, be sure to follow and vote on https://feedback.mongodb.com/forums/924868-atlas-search/suggestions/38786779-allow-the-ability-to-test-atlas-search-locally
At this time we still have no plan to support Atlas Search for on-prem installations--however it is a common enough request that this idea will remain open to gather further input from the community.
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Augusto commented
Two major areas: not being able to test locally is HUGE. Also, full dependency on Atlas, is also bad, since some clients do not want to use Atlas.
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Lukas commented
While we're not running this on-prem but within atlas, not being able to test things locally or in unit tests is a pretty big downer.