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Learning Elasticsearch
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Learning Elasticsearch

by Abhishek Andhavarapu
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Different types of queries

Elasticsearch queries are executed using the Search API. Like anything else in Elasticsearch, request and response are represented in JSON.

Queries in Elasticsearch at a high level are divided as follows:

  • Structured queries: Structured queries are used to query numbers, dates, statuses, and so on. These are similar to queries supported by a SQL database. For example, whether a number or date falls within a range or to find all the employees with John as the first name and so on
  • Full-text search queries: Full-text search queries are used to search text fields. When you send a full-text query to Elasticsearch, it first finds all the documents that match the query, and then the documents are ranked based on how relevant ...
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