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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

Managing bulk action


Executing atomic operation on items via single call is often a bottleneck if you need to index or delete thousands/millions of records: the best practice in this case is to execute a bulk action. We discussed bulk action via REST API in the Speeding up atomic operations (bulk) recipe in Chapter 4, Standard Operations.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working copy of Maven.

The code of this recipe is in chapter_10/nativeclient in the code bundle of this book available on Packt's website and the referred class is BulkOperations.

How to do it...

For managing a bulk action, we will perform the steps given as follows:

  1. We'll execute a bulk action adding 1000 elements, updating them and deleting them:

    import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkRequestBuilder;
    import org.elasticsearch.client.Client;
    import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
    
    import java.io.IOException;
    
    public class BulkOperations {
      public static void main( String[] args...