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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

Managing a child document


In the previous recipe we have seen how it's possible to manage relations between objects with the nested object type. The disadvantage of nested objects is their dependence to their parent. If you need to change the value of a nested object, you need to reindex the parent (this brings to a potential performance overhead if the nested objects change too quickly). To solve this problem, ElasticSearch allows defined child documents.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

We can modify the order example indexing the items as separated child documents.

We need to extract the item object and create a new type document item with the _parent property set.

{
  "order": {
    "properties": {
      "id": {
        "type": "string",
        "store": "yes",
        "index": "not_analyzed"
      },
    "date": {
      "type": "date",
      "store": "no",
      "index": "not_analyzed"
    },
    "customer_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "store...