June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 22m
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Updating a document in Elasticsearch is more complicated than in a traditional SQL database. Internally, Elasticsearch retrieves the old document, applies the changes, and re-inserts the document as a new document. The update operation is very expensive. There are different ways of updating a document. We will talk about updating a partial document here and in more detail in the Updating your data section in Chapter 4, Indexing and Updating Your Data.
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