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Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based distributed search server that allows users to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. With this book, you'll be guided through comprehensive recipes on what's new in Elasticsearch 7, and see how to create and run complex queries and analytics. Packed with recipes on performing index mapping, aggregation, and scripting using Elasticsearch, this fourth edition of Elasticsearch Cookbook will get you acquainted with numerous solutions and quick techniques for performing both every day and uncommon tasks such as deploying Elasticsearch nodes, integrating other tools to Elasticsearch, and creating different visualizations. You will install Kibana to monitor a cluster and also extend it using a variety of plugins. Finally, you will integrate your Java, Scala, Python, and big data applications such as Apache Spark and Pig with Elasticsearch, and create efficient data applications powered by enhanced functionalities and custom plugins. By the end of this book, you will have gained in-depth knowledge of implementing Elasticsearch architecture, and you'll be able to manage, search, and store data efficiently and effectively using Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page

Python Integration

In the previous chapter, we saw how it was possible to use a native client to access the Elasticsearch server via Java. This chapter is dedicated to the Python language and how to manage common tasks via its clients.

Apart from Java, the Elasticsearch team supports official clients for Perl, PHP, Python, .NET, and Ruby (see the announcement post on the Elasticsearch blog at http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/unleash-the-clients-ruby-python-php-perl/). These clients have a lot of advantages over other implementations. A few of them are given in the following list:

  • They are strongly tied to the Elasticsearch API. These clients are direct translations of the native Elasticsearch REST interface—the Elasticsearch team.
  • They handle dynamic node detection and failovers. They are built with a strong networking base for communicating with the cluster.
  • They have...