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Elasticsearch Indexing

By : Huseyin Akdogan
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Elasticsearch Indexing

By: Huseyin Akdogan

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the way ElasticSearch stores data, you’ll begin to extend your knowledge to tackle indexing and mapping, and learn how to configure ElasticSearch to meet your users’ needs. You’ll then find out how to use analysis and analyzers for greater intelligence in how you organize and pull up search results – to guarantee that every search query is met with the relevant results! You’ll explore the anatomy of an ElasticSearch cluster, and learn how to set up configurations that give you optimum availability as well as scalability. Once you’ve learned how these elements work, you’ll find real-world solutions to help you improve indexing performance, as well as tips and guidance on safety so you can back up and restore data. Once you’ve learned each component outlined throughout, you will be confident that you can help to deliver an improved search experience – exactly what modern users demand and expect.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Elasticsearch Indexing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Node


A node is a single instance of the Elasticsearch server and it can host data. This means that shards of indices are allowed to be allocated on the nodes. By default, each node is considered to be a data node, but you can turn the setting off.

Note

You can make a non-data node by adding node.data: false to the elasticsearch.yml file.

Non-data nodes

There are two types of non-data nodes: dedicated master nodes and client nodes.

Dedicated master nodes

Dedicated master nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master :true. Such nodes are responsible for managing the cluster. Index and search requests are not sent to these nodes.

Client nodes

Client nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master: false. It can be used to balance the load because all HTTP communication will be performed through these nodes.

Tribe node

Another type of Elasticsearch node is tribe node. Normally, a node is associated with a single cluster. But sometimes, all the connected clusters may feel...