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Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

By : Wai Tak Wong
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Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

By: Wai Tak Wong

Overview of this book

Building enterprise-grade distributed applications and executing systematic search operations call for a strong understanding of Elasticsearch and expertise in using its core APIs and latest features. This book will help you master the advanced functionalities of Elasticsearch and understand how you can develop a sophisticated, real-time search engine confidently. In addition to this, you'll also learn to run machine learning jobs in Elasticsearch to speed up routine tasks. You'll get started by learning to use Elasticsearch features on Hadoop and Spark and make search results faster, thereby improving the speed of query results and enhancing the customer experience. You'll then get up to speed with performing analytics by building a metrics pipeline, defining queries, and using Kibana for intuitive visualizations that help provide decision-makers with better insights. The book will later guide you through using Logstash with examples to collect, parse, and enrich logs before indexing them in Elasticsearch. By the end of this book, you will have comprehensive knowledge of advanced topics such as Apache Spark support, machine learning using Elasticsearch and scikit-learn, and real-time analytics, along with the expertise you need to increase business productivity, perform analytics, and get the very best out of Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Fundamentals and Core APIs
8
Section 2: Data Modeling, Aggregations Framework, Pipeline, and Data Analytics
13
Section 3: Programming with the Elasticsearch Client
16
Section 4: Elastic Stack
20
Section 5: Advanced Features

Migration between versions

The rules of thumb when migrating your application between Elasticsearch versions are as follows:

  • When migrating between minor versions (for example, 7.x to 7.y), we can upgrade one node at a time.
  • Migrating between two subsequent major versions (for example, 6.x to 7.x) requires a full cluster restart.
  • Migrating between two non-subsequent major versions (for example, 5.x to 7.x) requires reindexing documents from Elasticsearch 5.x to Elasticsearch 6.x. Then, you follow the procedures for migrating between two subsequent major versions.

A reindexing API can be used to convert multi-type indices to single-type indices during migration. See the example in Chapter 3, Document APIs.

Elasticsearch 7.0 will not start on a node with documents indexed prior to 6.0.