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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Speeding up atomic operations (bulk operations)


When we are inserting, deleting, or updating a large number of documents, the HTTP overhead is significant. To speed up the process, ElasticSearch allow to execute bulk CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) calls.

Getting ready

You will need a working ElastiSearch cluster.

How to do it...

As we are changing the state of the data, the HTTP method is POST and the REST URL is:

http://<server>/<index_name/_bulk

To execute a bulk action, we will perform the steps given as follows:

  1. We need to collect the Create, Index, Delete, Update commands in a structure made of bulk JSON lines, composed by a line of action with metadata and another line with optional data related to the action. Every line must end with a newline, \n. The bulk data file should be, for example:

    { "index":{ "_index":"myindex", "_type":"order", "_id":"1" } }
    { "field1" : "value1",  "field2" : "value2"  }
    { "delete":{ "_index":"myindex", "_type":"order", "_id":"2" } }
    { "create":{...