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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

Using the MongoDB river


MongoDB is a very common NoSQL tool used all over the world. One of its main drawbacks is that it was not designed for text searching.

Thus, the latest MongoDB version provides full text search, its completeness, and functionality are far more limited than the current ElasticSearch version. So it's quite common to use MongoDB as the data store and ElasticSearch for searching. The MongoDB river, which initially was developed by me and now is maintained by Richard Louapre, helps to create a bridge between these two applications.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a working MongoDB instance installed in the same machine of ElasticSearch in replica set (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/deploy-replica-set/ and http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/convert-standalone-to-replica-set/). You need to restore the sample data available in mongodb/data using the following command:

mongorestore –d escookbook escookbook

How to do it...

For using the MongoDB...