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Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0
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Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

by Wai Tak Wong
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
13h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Between the Elasticsearch index and the Lucene index

The data in Elasticsearch is organized into indices. Each index is a logical namespace for organizing data. The document is a basic unit of data in Elasticsearch. An inverted index is created by tokenizing the terms in the document, creating a sorted list of all unique terms, and associating the document list with the location where the terms can be found. An index consists of one or more shards. A shard is a Lucene index that uses a data structure (inverted index) to store data. Each shard can have zero or more replicas. Elasticsearch ensures that the primary and the replica of the same shard will not collocate in the same node, as shown in the following screenshot, where Data Node 1

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