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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

Indexing data via Apache Spark


After having installed Apache Spark, we can configure it to work with Elasticsearch and write some data in it.

Getting ready

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

You also need a working installation of Apache Spark.

How to do it...

To configure Apache Spark to communicate with Elasticsearch, we will perform the following steps:

  1. We need to download the ElasticSearch Spark JAR:

            wget http://download.elastic.co/hadoop/elasticsearch-hadoop-
            5.1.1.zip 
            unzip elasticsearch-hadoop-5.1.1.zip 
    
  2. A quick way to access the Spark shell in Elasticsearch is to copy the Elasticsearch Hadoop required file in Spark's .jar directory. The file that must be copied is elasticsearch-spark-20_2.11-5.1.1.jar.

    The version of Scala used by both Apache Spark and Elasticsearch Spark must match!

For storing data in Elasticsearch via Apache...