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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


There are two ways to insert your data in ElasticSearch. In the previous chapters we have seen the index API, which allows storing documents in ElasticSearch via the PUT/POST API or the bulk shortcut. The other way is to use a service that fetches the data from an external source (one shot or periodically) and puts the data into the cluster.

ElasticSearch names these services as Rivers and the ElasticSearch community provides several rivers to connect to the following data sources:

  • CouchDB

  • MongoDB

  • RabbitMQ

  • SQL DBMS (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and so on)

  • Redis

  • Twitter

  • Wikipedia

The rivers are available as external plugins.

In this chapter we'll discuss how to manage a river (creating, checking, and deleting) and how to configure the most common ones.