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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


This chapter has been all about the querying process. We started by looking at how to query Elasticsearch and what Elasticsearch does when it needs to handle the query. We also learned about the basic and compound queries, so we are now able to use both simple queries as well as the ones that group multiple small queries together. Finally, we discussed how to choose the right query for a given use case.

In the next chapter, we will extend our query knowledge. We will start with filtering our queries and move to highlighting possibilities and a way to validate our queries using Elasticsearch API. We will discuss sorting of search results and query rewrite which will show us what happens to some queries in Elasticsearch internals.