Chapter 4. Basic Operations

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating an index

• Deleting an index

• Opening/closing an index

• Putting a mapping in an index

• Getting a mapping

• Reindexing an index

• Refreshing an index

• Flushing an index

• ForceMerge an index

• Shrinking an index

• Checking if an index or type exists

• Managing index settings

• Using index aliases

• Rollover an index

• Indexing a document

• Getting a document

• Deleting a document

• Updating a document

• Speeding up atomic operations (bulk operations)

• Speeding up GET operations (multi GET)