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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

Speeding up atomic operations (bulk)


When we are inserting/deleting/updating a large number of documents, the HTTP overhead is significant to speed up the process, which ElasticSearch allows executing bulk of calls.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

As we are changing the state of the data the HTTP method is POST and the following is the REST URL:

http://<server>/<index_name/_bulk

For executing a bulk action, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. We need to collect the create/index/delete/update commands in a structure made up of bulk JSON lines, composed by a line of action with metadata and another line optional of data related to the action. Every line must be ended with a newline character "\n".

    A bulk datafile should be as follows:

    { "index":{ "_index":"myindex", "_type":"order", "_id":"1" } }
    { "field1" : "value1",  "field2" : "value2"  }
    { "delete":{ "_index":"myindex", "_type":"order", "_id":"2" } }
    { "create":{ "_index":"myindex", "_type...