Using a simple query string query

Typically, the programmer has the control to build complex query using Boolean query and the other query types. Thus, Elasticsearch provides two kinds of queries that give the user the ability to create string queries with several operators in it.

These kinds of queries are very common on advanced search engine usage, such as Google, which allow us to use the + and - operators on terms.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman...