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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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Basic concepts of Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source search engine. Although it started as a text search engine, it is evolving as an analytical engine, which can support not only search but also complex aggregations. Its distributed nature and ease of use makes it very easy to get started and scale as you have more data. 

One might ask what makes Elasticsearch different from any other document stores out there. Elasticsearch is a search engine and not just a key-value store. It's also a very powerful analytical engine; all the queries that you would usually run in a batch or offline mode can be executed in real time. Support for features such as autocomplete, geo-location based filters, multilevel aggregations, ...

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ISBN: 9781787128453