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Elasticsearch Essentials

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Elasticsearch Essentials

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving and growing datasets, organizations have the need to find actionable insights for their business. ElasticSearch, which is the world's most advanced search and analytics engine, brings the ability to make massive amounts of data usable in a matter of milliseconds. It not only gives you the power to build blazing fast search solutions over a massive amount of data, but can also serve as a NoSQL data store. This guide will take you on a tour to become a competent developer quickly with a solid knowledge level and understanding of the ElasticSearch core concepts. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover these core concepts, setting up ElasticSearch and various plugins, working with analyzers, and creating mappings. This book provides complete coverage of working with ElasticSearch using Python and performing CRUD operations and aggregation-based analytics, handling document relationships in the NoSQL world, working with geospatial data, and taking data backups. Finally, we’ll show you how to set up and scale ElasticSearch clusters in production environments as well as providing some best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Elasticsearch Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing backup and restore mechanisms


In Elasticsearch, you can implement a backup and restore functionality in two different ways depending on the requirements and efforts put in. You can either create a script to create manual backups and restoration or you can opt for a more automated and functionality-rich Backup-Restore API offered by Elasticsearch.

Backup using snapshot API

A snapshot is the backup of a complete cluster or selected indices. The best thing about snapshots is that they are incremental in nature. So, only data that has been changed since the last snapshot will be taken in the next snapshot.

Life was not so easy before the release of Elasticsearch Version 1.0.0. This release not only introduced powerful aggregation functionalities to Elasticsearch, but also brought in the Snapshot Restore API to create backups and restore them on the fly. Initially, only a shared file system was supported by this API, but gradually it has been possible to use this API on AWS to create...