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Learning Elasticsearch

By : Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Learning Elasticsearch

By: Abhishek Andhavarapu

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. You can use Elasticsearch for small or large applications with billions of documents. It is built to scale horizontally and can handle both structured and unstructured data. Packed with easy-to- follow examples, this book will ensure you will have a firm understanding of the basics of Elasticsearch and know how to utilize its capabilities efficiently. You will install and set up Elasticsearch and Kibana, and handle documents using the Distributed Document Store. You will see how to query, search, and index your data, and perform aggregation-based analytics with ease. You will see how to use Kibana to explore and visualize your data. Further on, you will learn to handle document relationships, work with geospatial data, and much more, with this easy-to-follow guide. Finally, you will see how you can set up and scale your Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Exploring Elastic Stack (Elastic Cloud, Security, Graph, and Alerting)

Making suggestions based on the user input

In the previous section, we discussed fuzzy query to fix the typos automatically. In this section, we will discuss the suggest API, which can provide word or phrase suggestions to the user based on the input query. Fuzzy query automatically corrects the fuzziness; Suggest API simply makes suggestions. Suggest API supports the following:

  • Term and phrase suggester: You can use the term or phrase suggester to make suggestions based on the existing documents in case of typos or spelling mistakes.
  • Completion suggester: You can use the completion suggester to predict the query term before the user finishes typing. Helping the user with the right search phrases improves the overall experience and decreases the load on the servers.

Implementing...