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Elasticsearch 5.x Solutions: Getting Started [Video]

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

Elasticsearch 5.x Solutions: Getting Started [Video]

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based distributed search server that allows users to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. This course is your one-stop guide to master the complete Elasticsearch ecosystem. </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">We’ll guide you what’s new in Elasticsearch 5.x, showing you how to create complex queries and analytics, and perform index mapping. Right from downloading and setting up Elasticsearch to configuring it for your needs, this course goes on to give you a brief overview of the mappings and the basic operations that you can perform on your data with the help of Elasticsearch.</span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">This course follows a problem-solution approach to effectively use and manage Elasticsearch. Each video focuses on a particular task at hand and is explained in a very simple, easy to understand manner.</span></span></p>
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 4
Basic Operations
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Section 1
Creating, Deleting, and Opening/Closing an Index
The first operation to do before starting indexing data in Elasticsearch is to create an index–the main container of our data. Let’s also see the counterpart of creating an index is deleting one. - Execute a PUT call - Use DELETE to delete an index - Execute a POST call to close an index