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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third 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. This book is your one-stop guide to master the complete Elasticsearch ecosystem. We’ll guide you through comprehensive recipes on what’s new in Elasticsearch 5.x, showing you how to create complex queries and analytics, and perform index mapping, aggregation, and scripting. Further on, you will explore the modules of Cluster and Node monitoring and see ways to back up and restore a snapshot of an index. You will understand how to install Kibana to monitor a cluster and also to extend Kibana for plugins. Finally, you will also see how you can integrate your Java, Scala, Python, and Big Data applications such as Apache Spark and Pig with Elasticsearch, and add enhanced functionalities with custom plugins. By the end of this book, you will have an in-depth knowledge of the implementation of the Elasticsearch architecture and will be able to manage data efficiently and effectively with Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Executing a standard search


In the previous recipe, we have seen how to build queries; in this recipe we can execute a query to retrieve some documents.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in the Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

A Maven tool, or an IDE that natively supports it for Java programming such as Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, must be installed.

The code for this recipe is in the chapter_14/nativeclient directory and the referred class is the QueryExample.

How to do it...

To execute a standard query, we will perform the following steps:

  1. We need to import QueryBuilders to create the query:

            import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.*; 
    
  2. We can create an index and populate it with some data:

            String index = "mytest"; 
            String type = "mytype"; 
            QueryHelper qh = new QueryHelper(); 
            qh.populateData(index, type); 
        ...