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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

Using the CouchDB river


CouchDB is a NoSQL data store that stores data in the JSON format, similar to ElasticSearch. It can query with map/reduce tasks and it's RESTful, so every operation can be done via HTTP API calls.

Using ElasticSearch to search the CouchDB data is very handy as it extends CouchDB data store with Lucene search capabilities.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working CouchDB Server to connect to.

How to do it...

For using the CouchDB river, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. Firstly, we need to install the CouchDB river plugin, which is available on GitHub and maintained by the ElasticSearch company. We can install the river plugin in the following way:

    bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-couchdb/1.2.0

    Tip

    The CouchDB river plugin uses the attachment plugin and sometimes JavaScript scripting language, it is good practice to install them.

  2. After restarting the node, we are able to create a configuration (config.json) for our CouchDB...