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Elasticsearch Indexing
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Elasticsearch Indexing

by Huseyin Akdogan
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Node

A node is a single instance of the Elasticsearch server and it can host data. This means that shards of indices are allowed to be allocated on the nodes. By default, each node is considered to be a data node, but you can turn the setting off.

Note

You can make a non-data node by adding node.data: false to the elasticsearch.yml file.

Non-data nodes

There are two types of non-data nodes: dedicated master nodes and client nodes.

Dedicated master nodes

Dedicated master nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master :true. Such nodes are responsible for managing the cluster. Index and search requests are not sent to these nodes.

Client nodes

Client nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master: false. It can be used to balance ...

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