June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 22m
English
The binary data type is used to store a Base64 encoded string. Binary data type fields are not indexed and only stored by default. You can set binary mapping as shown here:
PUT chapter3/_mapping/binary{ "properties": { "binary_field": { "type": "binary" } } }
Binary data types can be used to blob data such as images, large objects compressed, and so on.
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