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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)
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Using the range query

All the previous queries work with defined or partially defined values, but it's very common in real world application to work for a range of values. The most common standard scenarios are:

  • Filtering by numeric value range (that is, price, size, and age)
  • Filtering by date (that is, events of 03/07/12 can be a range query from 03/07/12 00:00:00 to 03/07/12 24:59:59)
  • Filtering by term range (that is, from A to D).

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman...