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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

Mapping different analyzers


In the previous recipes, we have seen how to map different fields and objects in ElasticSearch and we have described how it's easy to change the standard analyzer with the analyzer, index_analyzer, and search_analyzer properties.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

Every core type field allows specifying a custom analyzer for indexing and for searching as field parameters.

For example, if we want that the name field uses a standard analyzer for indexing and a simple analyzer for searching, the mapping will be as follows:

{
    "name": {
        "type": "string",
        "index": "analyzed",
        "index_analyzer": "standard",
        "search_analyzer": "simple"
    }
}

How it works...

The concept of analyzer comes from Lucene (the core of ElasticSearch). An analyzer is a Lucene element that is composed of a tokenizer, that splits a text in tokens, and one or more token filters that perform token manipulation, such as lowercasing,...