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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

Using a range query/filter


Searching/filtering by range is a very common scenario in a real world application. Some standard cases are as follows:

  • Filtering by range numeric value (that is, Price, size, ages, and so on)

  • Filtering by date (that is, events of 03/07/12 can be a range query from 03/07/12 00:00:00 and 03/07/12 24:59:59)

  • Filtering by term (that is, from A to D)

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster, an index "test" (refer to the next chapter to learn how to create an index), and basic knowledge of JSON.

How to do it...

For executing a range query/filter, we need to perform the following step:

  1. Considering the sample data of previous examples which contains an integer field position. Using it to execute a query for filtering positions between 3 and 5, we will have:

    curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-index/test-type/_search' -d '{
        "query": {
            "filtered": {
                "filter": {
                    "range" : {
                      "position" : { 
                  ...