CRUD operations

In this section, we will look at how to perform basic CRUD operations, which are the most fundamental operations required by any data store. Elasticsearch has a very well-designed REST API, and the CRUD operations are targeted at documents.

To understand how to perform CRUD operations, we will cover the following APIs. These APIs fall under the category of document APIs, which deal with documents:

• Index API
• Get API
• Update API
• Delete API

Index API

In Elasticsearch terminology, adding (or creating) a document to a type within an index of Elasticsearch is called an indexing operation. Essentially, it involves adding the document to the index by parsing all the fields within the document and building the inverted...