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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook Distributed Search and Analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786465580
Length 696 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Credits
About the Author
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Dedication
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Downloading and Setup 3. Managing Mappings 4. Basic Operations 5. Search 6. Text and Numeric Queries 7. Relationships and Geo Queries 8. Aggregations 9. Scripting 10. Managing Clusters and Nodes 11. Backup and Restore 12. User Interfaces 13. Ingest 14. Java Integration 15. Scala Integration 16. Python Integration 17. Plugin Development 18. Big Data Integration

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we saw how it is possible to use a native client to access the Elasticsearch server via Java. This chapter is dedicated to the Python language and how to manage common tasks via its clients.

Apart from Java, the Elasticsearch team supports official clients for Perl, PHP, Python, .NET, and, Ruby. (See the announcement post on the Elasticsearch blog at http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/unleash-the-clients-ruby-python-php-perl/.) These clients have a lot of advantages over other implementations. A few of them are mentioned as follows:

  • They are strongly tied to the Elasticsearch API:

                 "These clients are direct translations of the native Elasticsearch REST interface"                                                                                                     - The Elasticsearch team

  • They handle dynamic node detection and failover: they are built with a strong networking base for communicating with the cluster.

  • They have full coverage of...

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