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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


The chapter you just finished reading concentrated on indexing operations and handling data that is not flat or have relationships between the documents. We started with indexing tree-like structures and objects in Elasticsearch. We also used nested objects and learned when they can be used. We also used parent-child functionality and we learned how this approach is different compared to nested documents. Finally, we modified our indices structure with a call of an API and learned when this is possible.

In the next chapter, we will get back to querying related topics. We will learn how Lucene scoring works, how to use scripts in Elasticsearch, and how to handle multilingual data. We will affect scoring using boosts and we will use synonyms to improve users' search results. Finally, we will look at what we can do to see how our documents were scored.