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ElasticSearch Server

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ElasticSearch Server

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is an open source search server built on Apache Lucene. It was built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy.Jumping into the world of ElasticSearch by setting up your own custom cluster, this book will show you how to create a fast, scalable, and flexible search solution. By learning the ins-and-outs of data indexing and analysis, "ElasticSearch Server" will start you on your journey to mastering the powerful capabilities of ElasticSearch. With practical chapters covering how to search data, extend your search, and go deep into cluster administration and search analysis, this book is perfect for those new and experienced with search servers.In "ElasticSearch Server" you will learn how to revolutionize your website or application with faster, more accurate, and flexible search functionality. Starting with chapters on setting up your own ElasticSearch cluster and searching and extending your search parameters you will quickly be able to create a fast, scalable, and completely custom search solution.Building on your knowledge further you will learn about ElasticSearch's query API and become confident using powerful filtering and faceting capabilities. You will develop practical knowledge on how to make use of ElasticSearch's near real-time capabilities and support for multi-tenancy.Your journey then concludes with chapters that help you monitor and tune your ElasticSearch cluster as well as advanced topics such as shard allocation, gateway configuration, and the discovery module.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
ElasticSearch Server
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The words having the same meaning


You may have heard about synonyms—words that have the same or similar meaning. Sometimes you would want to have some words to be matched when one of those words is entered into the search box. Let's recall our sample data from Chapter 2, Searching Your Data; there was a book called "Crime and Punishment". What if we want that book to be matched not only when the words crime or punishment are used, but also when using words like criminality and abuse. However silly it may sound, let's use that example to see how synonyms can be used in ElasticSearch.

Synonym filter

In order to use the synonym filter, we need to define our own analyzer (please refer to Chapter 1, Getting Started with ElasticSearch Cluster, in order to see how to do that). Our analyzer will be called synonym and will use the whitespace tokenizer and a single filter called synonym. Our filter's type property needs to be set to synonym, which tells ElasticSearch that this filter is a synonym filter...