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Mastering Elasticsearch, 2nd Edition

  • Length: 372 pages
  • Edition: 1
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  • Publication Date: 2015-02-26
  • ISBN-10: 1783553790
  • ISBN-13: 9781783553792
  • Sales Rank: #2167248 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Further your knowledge of the Elasticsearch server by learning more about its internals, querying, and data handling

About This Book

  • Understand Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch’s design and architecture
  • Design your index, configure it, and distribute it, not only with assumptions, but with the underlying knowledge of how it works
  • Improve your user search experience with Elasticsearch functionality and learn how to develop your own Elasticsearch plugins

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Elasticsearch users who want to extend their knowledge and develop new skills. Prior knowledge of the Query DSL and data indexing is expected.

In Detail

Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. Elasticsearch leverages the capabilities of Apache Lucene, providing a new level of control over how you can index and search even huge sets of data.

This book covers intermediate and advanced functionalities of Elasticsearch and walks you through its internals including caches, the Apache Lucene library, and its monitoring capabilities. You’ll learn about practical usage of Elasticsearch configuration parameters and how to use the monitoring API.

With this book, you’ll delve into Elasticsearch’s query rewrite, query template, bulk operation, document grouping, and function score queries. You will also learn how to improve user search experience, index distribution, segment statistics, and merging. By the end of the book, you will be able to enhance Elasticsearch’s performance and create your own Elasticsearch plugins.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Elasticsearch
Chapter 2. Power User Query DSL
Chapter 3. Not Only Full Text Search
Chapter 4. Improving the User Search Experience
Chapter 5. The Index Distribution Architecture
Chapter 6. Low-level Index Control
Chapter 7. Elasticsearch Administration
Chapter 8. Improving Performance
Chapter 9. Developing Elasticsearch Plugins

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