Data Lake for Enterprises

Indexing Documents

Now that we have the index created, we can indexed a document into the index. The only requirement for a document to be indexed is that it should be a JSON document as Elasticsearch is schema-less and derives the storage schema based on the document structure indexed.

As shown in the following figure, the command to index a document is PUT {index-name}/{type}/{id}:

PUT datalake/contacts/101{  "id":101,  "cell":"[phone]",  "work":”1-906-774-1226",  "email":"[e-mail]"}

Figure 24: Document Creation Query

As the document is indexed, Elasticsearch internally creates document mapping based on the data in ...