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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

Introduction


This chapter covers how to manage indices and operations on documents. We'll start by discussing different operations on indices, such as create, delete, update, open and close.

After indices, we'll see how to manage mappings to complete the discussion on them started in the previous chapter and to create a base for the next chapter mainly centered on search.

In this chapter, a lot of space is given to CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) operations on records. For improved performance in indexing, it's also important to understand bulk operations and avoid their common pitfalls.

This chapter doesn't cover operations involving queries which are the main topics of the next chapter.

Also cluster operations will be discussed in the Monitor chapter because they are mainly related to control and monitor the cluster.