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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

Node types in Elasticsearch


In Elasticsearch, you can configure three types of nodes, as shown in the following cluster:

In the preceding cluster diagram, there are two client nodes, three master nodes, and two data nodes. Let's understand how these node types differ in Elasticsearch and how to configure them.

Client node

A client node in Elasticsearch acts as a query router and a load balancer. It does not hold any data. A client node can be used to query as well as index processes. It takes queries and distributes the search to data nodes. Once the data nodes return their respective results, the client node combines all the data to give the final results. Similarly, when you send the data to a client node for indexing, it calculates the sharding key for each document and sends the documents for the respective shards.

A client node can be configured by adding the following lines to the elasticsearch.yml file:

  • node.data: false

  • node.master: false

Data node

A data node in the Elasticsearch is responsible...