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Alexander Marquardt

Principal Consultant

About the author

Alex is a principal consultant on the services EMEA team. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Toronto, a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, and an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. Check out his personal blog at www.AlexMarquardt.com.

Author’s articles

Efficient bitwise matching in Elasticsearch

October 21, 2024

Efficient bitwise matching in Elasticsearch

Explore six approaches to encoding and matching binary data in Elasticsearch, including terms encoding (my preferred approach), boolean encoding, sparse bit position encoding, integer encoding with exact matching, integer encoding with scripted bitwise matching, and integer encoding with ESQL for bitwise matching, with practical examples and use cases.

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