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Elasticsearch Server - Third Edition

By : Rafal Kuc
Book Image

Elasticsearch Server - Third Edition

By: Rafal Kuc

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is a very fast and scalable open source search engine, designed with distribution and cloud in mind, complete with all the goodies that Apache Lucene has to offer. ElasticSearch’s schema-free architecture allows developers to index and search unstructured content, making it perfectly suited for both small projects and large big data warehouses, even those with petabytes of unstructured data. This book will guide you through the world of the most commonly used ElasticSearch server functionalities. You’ll start off by getting an understanding of the basics of ElasticSearch and its data indexing functionality. Next, you will see the querying capabilities of ElasticSearch, followed by a through explanation of scoring and search relevance. After this, you will explore the aggregation and data analysis capabilities of ElasticSearch and will learn how cluster administration and scaling can be used to boost your application performance. You’ll find out how to use the friendly REST APIs and how to tune ElasticSearch to make the most of it. By the end of this book, you will have be able to create amazing search solutions as per your project’s specifications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Elasticsearch Server Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we've learned a lot when it comes to indexation and data handling in Elasticsearch. We started with basic information about Elasticsearch and we proceeded to tuning the schema-less behavior in Elasticsearch. We learned how to configure our mappings, use out of the box language analysis capabilities of Elasticsearch, and create our own mappings. We looked at batch indexing to speed up indexation and we added additional internal information to the documents in our indices. Finally, we looked at segment merging and routing.

In the next chapter, we will fully concentrate on searching and the extensive query language of Elasticsearch. We will start with how to query Elasticsearch and how the Elasticsearch query process works. We will learn about all the basic queries and compound queries to be able to use them in our applications. Finally, we will see which query should be chosen for the given use case.