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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing a plugin


One of the main features of ElasticSearch is the possibility to extend it with plugins. Plugins extend ElasticSearch features and functionalities in several ways. There are two kinds of plugins:

  • Site plugins: These are used to serve static contents in their entry points. They are mainly used to create management application: monitoring and administration of a cluster.

  • Binary plugins: These are jar files that contain application code. They are used for:

    • Rivers (plugins that allow importing data from DBMS or other sources)

    • ScriptEngine (JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Ruby)

    • Custom analyzers and tokenizers

    • REST entry points

    • Supporting new protocols (Thrift, memcache, and so on)

    • Supporting new storages (Hadoop)

Getting ready

You need an installed working ElasticSearch server.

How to do it...

ElasticSearch provides a script for automatically downloading and installing plugins in bin/directory, called plugin.

The steps required to install a plugin are:

  1. Call the plugin install the ElasticSearch...