- Elasticsearch Guide: other versions:
- Getting Started
- Setup
- Breaking changes
- API Conventions
- Document APIs
- Search APIs
- Search
- URI Search
- Request Body Search
- Search Template
- Search Shards API
- Aggregations
- Min Aggregation
- Max Aggregation
- Sum Aggregation
- Avg Aggregation
- Stats Aggregation
- Extended Stats Aggregation
- Value Count Aggregation
- Percentiles Aggregation
- Percentile Ranks Aggregation
- Cardinality Aggregation
- Geo Bounds Aggregation
- Top hits Aggregation
- Scripted Metric Aggregation
- Global Aggregation
- Filter Aggregation
- Filters Aggregation
- Missing Aggregation
- Nested Aggregation
- Reverse nested Aggregation
- Children Aggregation
- Terms Aggregation
- Significant Terms Aggregation
- Range Aggregation
- Date Range Aggregation
- IPv4 Range Aggregation
- Histogram Aggregation
- Date Histogram Aggregation
- Geo Distance Aggregation
- GeoHash grid Aggregation
- Facets
- Suggesters
- Multi Search API
- Count API
- Search Exists API
- Validate API
- Explain API
- Percolator
- More Like This API
- Field stats API
- Indices APIs
- Create Index
- Delete Index
- Get Index
- Indices Exists
- Open / Close Index API
- Put Mapping
- Get Mapping
- Get Field Mapping
- Types Exists
- Delete Mapping
- Index Aliases
- Update Indices Settings
- Get Settings
- Analyze
- Index Templates
- Warmers
- Status
- Indices Stats
- Indices Segments
- Indices Recovery
- Clear Cache
- Flush
- Refresh
- Optimize
- Shadow replica indices
- Upgrade
- cat APIs
- Cluster APIs
- Query DSL
- Queries
- Match Query
- Multi Match Query
- Bool Query
- Boosting Query
- Common Terms Query
- Constant Score Query
- Dis Max Query
- Filtered Query
- Fuzzy Like This Query
- Fuzzy Like This Field Query
- Function Score Query
- Fuzzy Query
- GeoShape Query
- Has Child Query
- Has Parent Query
- Ids Query
- Indices Query
- Match All Query
- More Like This Query
- Nested Query
- Prefix Query
- Query String Query
- Simple Query String Query
- Range Query
- Regexp Query
- Span First Query
- Span Multi Term Query
- Span Near Query
- Span Not Query
- Span Or Query
- Span Term Query
- Term Query
- Terms Query
- Top Children Query
- Wildcard Query
- Minimum Should Match
- Multi Term Query Rewrite
- Template Query
- Filters
- And Filter
- Bool Filter
- Exists Filter
- Geo Bounding Box Filter
- Geo Distance Filter
- Geo Distance Range Filter
- Geo Polygon Filter
- GeoShape Filter
- Geohash Cell Filter
- Has Child Filter
- Has Parent Filter
- Ids Filter
- Indices Filter
- Limit Filter
- Match All Filter
- Missing Filter
- Nested Filter
- Not Filter
- Or Filter
- Prefix Filter
- Query Filter
- Range Filter
- Regexp Filter
- Script Filter
- Term Filter
- Terms Filter
- Type Filter
- Queries
- Mapping
- Analysis
- Analyzers
- Tokenizers
- Token Filters
- Standard Token Filter
- ASCII Folding Token Filter
- Length Token Filter
- Lowercase Token Filter
- Uppercase Token Filter
- NGram Token Filter
- Edge NGram Token Filter
- Porter Stem Token Filter
- Shingle Token Filter
- Stop Token Filter
- Word Delimiter Token Filter
- Stemmer Token Filter
- Stemmer Override Token Filter
- Keyword Marker Token Filter
- Keyword Repeat Token Filter
- KStem Token Filter
- Snowball Token Filter
- Phonetic Token Filter
- Synonym Token Filter
- Compound Word Token Filter
- Reverse Token Filter
- Elision Token Filter
- Truncate Token Filter
- Unique Token Filter
- Pattern Capture Token Filter
- Pattern Replace Token Filter
- Trim Token Filter
- Limit Token Count Token Filter
- Hunspell Token Filter
- Common Grams Token Filter
- Normalization Token Filter
- CJK Width Token Filter
- CJK Bigram Token Filter
- Delimited Payload Token Filter
- Keep Words Token Filter
- Keep Types Token Filter
- Classic Token Filter
- Apostrophe Token Filter
- Character Filters
- ICU Analysis Plugin
- Modules
- Index Modules
- Testing
- Glossary of terms
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Getting Started
editGetting Started
editElasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine. It allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in near real time. It is generally used as the underlying engine/technology that powers applications that have complex search features and requirements.
Here are a few sample use-cases that Elasticsearch could be used for:
- You run an online web store where you allow your customers to search for products that you sell. In this case, you can use Elasticsearch to store your entire product catalog and inventory and provide search and autocomplete suggestions for them.
- You want to collect log or transaction data and you want to analyze and mine this data to look for trends, statistics, summarizations, or anomalies. In this case, you can use Logstash (part of the Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana stack) to collect, aggregate, and parse your data, and then have Logstash feed this data into Elasticsearch. Once the data is in Elasticsearch, you can run searches and aggregations to mine any information that is of interest to you.
- You run a price alerting platform which allows price-savvy customers to specify a rule like "I am interested in buying a specific electronic gadget and I want to be notified if the price of gadget falls below $X from any vendor within the next month". In this case you can scrape vendor prices, push them into Elasticsearch and use its reverse-search (Percolator) capability to match price movements against customer queries and eventually push the alerts out to the customer once matches are found.
- You have analytics/business-intelligence needs and want to quickly investigate, analyze, visualize, and ask ad-hoc questions on a lot of data (think millions or billions of records). In this case, you can use Elasticsearch to store your data and then use Kibana (part of the Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana stack) to build custom dashboards that can visualize aspects of your data that are important to you. Additionally, you can use the Elasticsearch aggregations functionality to perform complex business intelligence queries against your data.
For the rest of this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of getting Elasticsearch up and running, taking a peek inside it, and performing basic operations like indexing, searching, and modifying your data. At the end of this tutorial, you should have a good idea of what Elasticsearch is, how it works, and hopefully be inspired to see how you can use it to either build sophisticated search applications or to mine intelligence from your data.