Query rewrite explained

We have already talked about scoring, which is valuable knowledge, especially when trying to improve the relevance of our queries. We also think that when debugging your queries, it is valuable to know how all the queries are executed; therefore, it is because of this we decided to include this section on how query rewrite works in Elasticsearch, why it is used, and how to control it.

If you have ever used queries, such as the prefix query and the wildcard query, basically any query that is said to be multiterm, you've probably heard about query rewriting. Elasticsearch does that because of performance reasons. The rewrite process is about changing the original, expensive query to a set of queries that are far less expensive from Lucene's point of view and thus speed up the query execution. The rewrite process is not visible to the client, but it is good to know that we can alter the rewrite process behavior. For example, let's look at what Elasticsearch...