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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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Scripting in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch has a powerful way of extending its capabilities by using custom scripts, which can be written in several programming languages. The most common ones are Painless, Express, and Mustache. In this chapter, we will explore how it's possible to create custom scoring algorithms, specially-processed return fields, custom sorting, and complex update operations on records. The scripting concept of Elasticsearch is an advanced stored-procedure system in the NoSQL world; due to this, every advanced user of Elasticsearch should learn how to master it.

Elasticsearch natively provides scripting in Java (that is, a Java code compiled in JAR), Painless, Express, and Mustache; however, a lot of other interesting languages are also available as plugins, such as Kotlin and Velocity. In older Elasticsearch releases, prior to version 5.0...