You know, for search

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a tool for querying written words.

Elasticsearch is a near real time search platform.


Terminology
MySQL Elastic Search
Database Index
Table Type
Row Document
Column Field
Schema Mapping
Index Everything is indexed
SQL Query DSL
SELECT * FROM table GET http://
UPDATE table SET PUT http://
Index Example
Term Count Docs
4 1 <3>
Apache 1 <3>
Cookbook 1 <3>
ElasticSearch 2 <1><2>
Mastering 1 <1>
Server 1 <1>
Solr 1 <3>
1. ElasticSearch Server (document 1)
2. Mastering ElasticSearch (document 2)
3. Apache Solr 4 Cookbook (document 3)

Indexing

ElasticSearch is able to achieve fast search responses because,
instead of searching the text directly, it searches an index
instead.
Cluster
A cluster is a collection of one or more nodes (servers) that together holds
your entire data and provides federated indexing and search capabilities
across all nodes.
Node
A node is a running instance of Elasticsearch
Document
Most entities or objects in most applications can be serialized into a JSON object, with keys and
values.

{
"name": "John Smith",
"age": 42,
"confirmed": true,
"join_date": "2014-06-01",
"home": {
"lat": 51.5,
"lon": 0.1
},
"accounts": [
{
"type": "facebook",
"id": "johnsmith"
},
{
"type": "twitter",
"id": "johnsmith"
}
]
}
Type
Within an index, you can define one or more types. A type is
a logical category/partition of your index whose semantics is
completely up to you. In general, a type is defined for
documents that have a set of common fields.
Index
An index is a collection of documents that have somewhat
similar characteristics. For example, you can have an index for
customer data, another index for a product catalog, and yet
another index for order data.
Shard
A single Lucene index
Automatically managed by elasticsearch
Distributed amongst all nodes in the cluster
Replica
A copy of the primary shard
Each primary shard can have zero or more replicas
Workshop
Installing Elasticsearch
curl -L -O
http://download.elasticsearch.org/PATH/TO/LATEST/$VERSIO
N.zip

unzip elasticsearch-$VERSION.zip

./bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest
Running Elasticsearch
Start : ./bin/elasticsearch
Test it out by opening another terminal window and running:
curl 'http://localhost:9200/?pretty
{
"status": 200,
"name": "Shrunken Bones",
"version": {
"number": "1.1.0",
"lucene_version": "4.7"
},
"tagline": "You Know, for Search"
}
Talking to Elasticsearch

Java API
Restful api with json over http

Request
A request to Elasticsearch consists of the same parts as any HTTP request.
For instance, to count the number of documents in the cluster, we could
use:


Response
Elasticsearch returns an HTTP status code like 200 OK and (except for HEAD requests) a JSON encoded response body.
The above curl request would respond with a JSON body like the following:
Indexing employee documents
Retrieving Document
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