Elasticsearch Server: Second Edition: From creating your own index structure through to cluster monitoring and troubleshooting, this is the complete guide to implementing the ElasticSearch search engine on your own websites. Packed with real-life examples.
This book is an excellent read for both beginning and experienced ElasticSearch Users.It goes into detail about what ElasticSearch is, how it works and setting it up in a single or clustered environment.The book covers the different APIs available and explains some of the best practices for architecting and searching your data.It also explains some more complex topics such as extending your index structures to handle data that isn't flat, index aliasing and detecting the language of documents.The one thing I found missing was securing ElasticSearch clusters but it seems in general this is something that is a shortcoming with the ElasticSearch product as a whole so I can't take away from this author for not covering it.
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A. PryorJun 02, 2014
5
A powerful guide to get you building search indexes fast! I'd suggest this to anyone interested in search from entry level engineers through experienced architects. I use this book as a reference for my team, it's incredible in-depth and has excellent API examples. It's up to date with all the new features in the Elasticsearch, and the section on aggregations is particularly interesting to me.It covers enough Lucene if you don't have any experience, but also dives into the more complex topics quickly with example code.Thorough demonstration of search API's of Elasticsearch. Everything from indexing, querying, relevance, highlights. Percolators and aggregators explained.Covers deploying and maintaining a cluster.Overall a great reference, well written, good purchase.
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William Tak Shing, WongMay 13, 2014
5
This is definitely an easy to read book for ElasticSearch. It's focus is on giving a complete elastcisearch reference for both beginning and intermediate ElasticSearch users. The author has a lot of references to the his other book Mastering Elasticsearch which I don't have a copy and can't comment. For advance users, I would recommend using the Elasticsearch.org reference.I have both the first and second edition of this book. For the second edition, it includes all the latest features for elasticsearch 1.0. I especially like the chapter 7 Elasticsearch Cluster in Details. It talks about the elasticsearch clustering in details and gives cluster tuning guidelines. This is extremely useful for any production deployment. It will be great if some real life examples are included in this section as well.If you are new to Elasticsearch, the best way to learn is to download a copy and try out with a few online tutorials. Once the basic concepts are there, reading this book will help tremendously.
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drizztJun 19, 2014
5
It's probably the best book ever written about Elasticsearch.Chapter 3 (Searching Your Data) is so clear and complete even a total newbie can use it, and together with Chapters 4 and 5 you can really improve your Search stuff.The only BIG thing that could be better explained is the Percolator, I suggest you to read also the Elasticsearch post about the last improvements on it.
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