gcloud beta vector-search collections create

NAME
gcloud beta vector-search collections create - create a collection
SYNOPSIS
gcloud beta vector-search collections create(COLLECTION :--location=LOCATION)[--async][--data-schema=DATA_SCHEMA][--description=DESCRIPTION][--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME][--labels=[LABELS,…]][--request-id=REQUEST_ID][--schema=SCHEMA][--vector-schema=[VECTOR_SCHEMA,…]][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG]
DESCRIPTION
(BETA) Create a collection.
EXAMPLES
To create a collectionmy-collection in projectmy-project and locationus-central1 to store denseembedding vectors with 100 dimensions, run:
gcloudbetavector-searchcollectionscreatemy-collection--location=us-central1--display-name='My Collection'--vector-schema='{"my-embedding-field": {"denseVector": {"dimensions": 100}}}'--project=my-project

To create a collectionmy-collection in projectmy-project and locationus-central1 with data schemaand vector schema, run:

gcloudbetavector-searchcollectionscreatemy-collection--location=us-central1--display-name='My Collection'--data-schema='{"type":"object","properties":{"year":{"type":"number"},"genre":{"type":"string"},"director":{"type":"string"},"title":{"type":"string"}}}'--vector-schema='{"plot_embedding":{"denseVector":{"dimensions":3}},"genre_embedding":{"denseVector":{"dimensions":4}},"sparse_embedding":{"sparseVector":{}}}'--project=my-project
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Collection resource - Identifier. name of resource The arguments in this groupcan be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributesare not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

  • provide the argumentcollection on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
  • provide the argument--project on the command line;
  • set the propertycore/project.

This must be specified.

COLLECTION
ID of the collection or fully qualified identifier for the collection.

To set thecollection attribute:

  • provide the argumentcollection on the command line.

This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.

--location=LOCATION
The location id of the collection resource.

To set thelocation attribute:

  • provide the argumentcollection on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
  • provide the argument--location on the command line.
FLAGS
--async
Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.
--data-schema=DATA_SCHEMA
JSON Schema for data. Field names must contain only alphanumeric characters,underscores, and hyphens.
--description=DESCRIPTION
User-specified description of the collection
--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME
User-specified display name of the collection
--labels=[LABELS,…]
Labels as key value pairs.
KEY
Keys must start with a lowercase character and contain only hyphens(-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, andnumbers.
VALUE
Values must contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_),lowercase characters, and numbers.
Shorthand Example:
--labels=string=string

JSON Example:

--labels='{"string": "string"}'

File Example:

--labels=path_to_file.(yaml|json)
--request-id=REQUEST_ID
An optional request ID to identify requests. Specify a unique request ID so thatif you must retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if ithas already been completed. The server will guarantee that for at least 60minutes since the first request.

For example, consider a situation where you make an initial request and therequest times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, theserver can check if original operation with the same request ID was received,and if so, will ignore the second request. This prevents clients fromaccidentally creating duplicate commitments.

The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is notsupported (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000).

--schema=SCHEMA
Deprecated: JSON Schema for data. Please use data_schema instead.
--vector-schema=[VECTOR_SCHEMA,…]
Schema for vector fields. Only vector fields in this schema will be searchable.Field names must contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens.
KEY
SetsKEY value.
VALUE
SetsVALUE value.
denseVector
Dense vector field.
dimensions
Dimensionality of the vector field.
vertexEmbeddingConfig
Configuration for generating embeddings for the vector field. If not specified,the embedding field must be populated in the DataObject.
modelId
Required: ID of the embedding model to use. Seehttps://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/models#embeddings-modelsfor the list of supported models.
taskType
Required: Task type for the embeddings.
textTemplate
Required: Text template for the input to the model. The template must containone or more references to fields in the DataObject, e.g.: "Movie Title: {title}---- Movie Plot: {plot}".
sparseVector
Sparse vector field.
Shorthand Example:
--vector-schema=string={denseVector={dimensions=int,vertexEmbeddingConfig={modelId=string,taskType=string,textTemplate=string}},sparseVector}

JSON Example:

--vector-schema='{"string": {"denseVector": {"dimensions": int, "vertexEmbeddingConfig": {"modelId": "string", "taskType": "string", "textTemplate": "string"}}, "sparseVector": {}}}'

File Example:

--vector-schema=path_to_file.(yaml|json)
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands:--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.

Run$gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE
This command uses thevectorsearch/v1beta API. The fulldocumentation for this API can be found at:https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/vector-search-2/overview
NOTES
This command is currently in beta and might change without notice.

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Last updated 2026-02-10 UTC.