February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
12h 24m
English
Related to shards management, there are key concepts of replication and cluster status.
You need one or more nodes running to have a cluster. To test an effective cluster, you need at least two nodes (that can be on the same machine).
An index can have one or more replicas (full copies of your data, automatically managed by Elasticsearch): the shards are called primary ones if they are part of the primary replica, and secondary ones if they are part of other replicas.
To maintain consistency in write operations, the following workflow is executed:
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