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Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x - Third Edition

By : Bharvi Dixit
Book Image

Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x - Third Edition

By: Bharvi Dixit

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. Elasticsearch leverages the capabilities of Apache Lucene, and provides a new level of control over how you can index and search even huge sets of data. This book will give you a brief recap of the basics and also introduce you to the new features of Elasticsearch 5. We will guide you through the intermediate and advanced functionalities of Elasticsearch, such as querying, indexing, searching, and modifying data. We’ll also explore advanced concepts, including aggregation, index control, sharding, replication, and clustering. We’ll show you the modules of monitoring and administration available in Elasticsearch, and will also cover backup and recovery. You will get an understanding of how you can scale your Elasticsearch cluster to contextualize it and improve its performance. We’ll also show you how you can create your own analysis plugin in Elasticsearch. By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to master Elasticsearch and put it to efficient use.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Setting a per-field similarity


Since Elasticsearch 0.90, we are allowed to set a different similarity for each of the fields we have in our mappings. For example, let's assume that we have the following simple mappings that we use in order to index blog posts (stored in the posts_no_similarity.json file):

{ 
  "mappings" : { 
    "post" : { 
      "properties" : { 
        "id" : { "type" : "long", "store" : "yes" }, 
        "name" : { "type" : "text", "store" : "yes", "index" :  
          "analyzed" }, 
        "contents" : { "type" : "text", "store" : "no", "index" :  
        "analyzed" } 
      } 
    } 
 } 
} 

What we would like to do is use the classic similarity model for the name field and the contents field. In order to do this, we need to extend our field definitions and add the similarity property with the value of the chosen similarity name. Our changed mappings (stored in the posts_similarity.json file) would...