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Elasticsearch 7 Quick Start Guide

By : Anurag Srivastava, Douglas Miller
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Elasticsearch 7 Quick Start Guide

By: Anurag Srivastava, Douglas Miller

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is one of the most popular tools for distributed search and analytics. This Elasticsearch book highlights the latest features of Elasticsearch 7 and helps you understand how you can use them to build your own search applications with ease. Starting with an introduction to the Elastic Stack, this book will help you quickly get up to speed with using Elasticsearch. You'll learn how to install, configure, manage, secure, and deploy Elasticsearch clusters, as well as how to use your deployment to develop powerful search and analytics solutions. As you progress, you'll also understand how to troubleshoot any issues that you may encounter along the way. Finally, the book will help you explore the inner workings of Elasticsearch and gain insights into queries, analyzers, mappings, and aggregations as you learn to work with search results. By the end of this book, you'll have a basic understanding of how to build and deploy effective search and analytics solutions using Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Mapping

Elasticsearch mapping is used to define the document structure with available fields and their datatypes. In Elasticsearch mapping, we have two types of fields, user-defined fields or properties and meta fields. User-defined fields can be any field that we use to provide for mapping or indexing while meta fields are those fields that help us to identify associated document metadata, for example, _index, _id, and _source.

Datatypes

Each field in an Elasticsearch document can have a datatype, and the datatype can be categorized into three categories, which are as follows.

The simple datatype

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