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Elasticsearch Essentials
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Elasticsearch Essentials

by Bharvi Dixit
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Elasticsearch Query-DSL

Query-DSL is a JSON interface provided by Elasticsearch to write queries in the JSON format. It allows you to write any query that you may write in Lucene. The queries can be as simple as just matching simple terms, or they can be very complex.

Until now, to retrieve documents from Elasticsearch we used a GET request that was dependent on the ID to search and retrieve the document. You can extend the searches in similar way; for example: localhost:9200/index_name/doc_type/_search?q=category:databases.

The preceding query is a typical Lucene query string that searches for the databases word inside the category field. Submitting queries to Elasticsearch in this way is very limited, so you will learn about Query-DSL now.

Syntax: ...

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