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Elasticsearch Essentials

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Elasticsearch Essentials

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving and growing datasets, organizations have the need to find actionable insights for their business. ElasticSearch, which is the world's most advanced search and analytics engine, brings the ability to make massive amounts of data usable in a matter of milliseconds. It not only gives you the power to build blazing fast search solutions over a massive amount of data, but can also serve as a NoSQL data store. This guide will take you on a tour to become a competent developer quickly with a solid knowledge level and understanding of the ElasticSearch core concepts. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover these core concepts, setting up ElasticSearch and various plugins, working with analyzers, and creating mappings. This book provides complete coverage of working with ElasticSearch using Python and performing CRUD operations and aggregation-based analytics, handling document relationships in the NoSQL world, working with geospatial data, and taking data backups. Finally, we’ll show you how to set up and scale ElasticSearch clusters in production environments as well as providing some best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Elasticsearch Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing Zen-Discovery


Elasticsearch is highly scalable and distributed in nature. This scalability would not have been possible without a reliable centralized co-ordination system. In fact, every distributed system requires a coordination system to maintain configuration information' and provide distributed synchronizations to all the nodes connected in the cluster. If you have worked with SolrCloud, you will know that it uses a coordination service known as Zookeeper. Zookeeper is an awesome open source project as a whole and can be used with many distributed systems, even with Elasticsearch by installing the plugin.

At the heart of Elasticsearch, there is no third-party coordination service. However, Elasticsearch does have a built-in centralized coordination mechanism—Zen Discovery. One of the primary tasks of Discovery is to choose a master node that looks after the entire cluster.

When you start a node in an Elasticsearch cluster, the first thing that happens is that a node searches...