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- 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 collection
my-collectionin projectmy-projectand locationus-central1to 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-projectTo create a collection
my-collectionin projectmy-projectand locationus-central1with 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 the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
collectionon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
This must be specified.
COLLECTION- ID of the collection or fully qualified identifier for the collection.
To set the
collectionattribute:- provide the argument
collectionon the command line.
This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.
- provide the argument
--location=LOCATION- The location id of the collection resource.
To set the
locationattribute:- provide the argument
collectionon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--locationon the command line.
- provide the argument
- provide the argument
- 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.
- 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- Sets
KEYvalue. VALUE- Sets
VALUEvalue.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 helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
vectorsearch/v1betaAPI. 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.