ElasticSearch Cookbook

As a user of ElasticSearch in your web applications you ll already know what a powerful technology it is, and with this book you can take it to new heights with a whole range of enhanced solutions from plugins to scripting.

Key Features

• Write native plugins to extend the capabilities of ElasticSearch to boost your business
• Integrate the power of ElasticSearch in your Java applications using the native API or Python applications, with the ElasticSearch community client
• Step-by step-instructions to help you easily understand ElasticSearch's capabilities, that act as a good reference for everyday activities

Book Description

What you will learn

• Choose the best ElasticSearch cloud topology to deploy and power it up with external plugins
• Control the index steps with tailored mappings
• Manage indices and documents and build a complex query against them
• Execute facets to compute analytics against your data to improve searches and results
• Use scripting to bypass limits of search, facets, and updates
• Synchronize and populate data from different data sources, by managing rivers (SQL, NoSQL, web)
• Monitor the cluster and node performances, and execute common tasks via web interfaces
• Integrate ElasticSearch in Python and Java applications
• Extend the capabilities of ElasticSearch by writing your own plugin to add REST calls, rivers, and custom cluster actions

Who this book is for

If you are a developer who implements ElasticSearch in your web applications, manage data, or have decided to start using ElasticSearch, this book is ideal for you. This book assumes that you've got working knowledge of JSON and Java.