Elasticsearch Essentials - Softcover

Dixit, Bharvi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784391018 ISBN 13: 9781784391010

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Harness the power of ElasticSearch to build and manage scalable search and analytics solutions with this fast-paced guide

About This Book

• New to ElasticSearch? Here's what you need―a highly practical guide that gives you a quick start with ElasticSearch using easy-to-follow examples; get up and running with ElasticSearch APIs in no time
• Get the latest guide on ElasticSearch 2.0.0, which contains concise and adequate information on handling all the issues a developer needs to know while handling data in bulk with search relevancy
• Learn to create large-scale ElasticSearch clusters using best practices
• Learn from our experts―written by Bharvi Dixit who has extensive experience in working with search servers (especially ElasticSearch)

Who This Book Is For

Anyone who wants to build efficient search and analytics applications can choose this book. This book is also beneficial for skilled developers, especially ones experienced with Lucene or Solr, who now want to learn Elasticsearch quickly.

What You Will Learn

• Get to know about advanced Elasticsearch concepts and its REST APIs
• Write CRUD operations and other search functionalities using the ElasticSearch Python and Java clients
• Dig into wide range of queries and find out how to use them correctly
• Design schema and mappings with built-in and custom analyzers
• Excel in data modeling concepts and query optimization
• Master document relationships and geospatial data
• Build analytics using aggregations
• Setup and scale Elasticsearch clusters using best practices
• Learn to take data backups and secure Elasticsearch clusters

In Detail

With constantly evolving and growing datasets, organizations have the need to find actionable insights for their business. ElasticSearch, which is the world's most advanced search and analytics engine, brings the ability to make massive amounts of data usable in a matter of milliseconds. It not only gives you the power to build blazing fast search solutions over a massive amount of data, but can also serve as a NoSQL data store.

This guide will take you on a tour to become a competent developer quickly with a solid knowledge level and understanding of the ElasticSearch core concepts. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover these core concepts, setting up ElasticSearch and various plugins, working with analyzers, and creating mappings. This book provides complete coverage of working with ElasticSearch using Python and performing CRUD operations and aggregation-based analytics, handling document relationships in the NoSQL world, working with geospatial data, and taking data backups. Finally, we'll show you how to set up and scale ElasticSearch clusters in production environments as well as providing some best practices.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow guide with practical examples and clear explanations of the concepts. This fast-paced book believes in providing very rich content focusing majorly on practical implementation. This book will provide you with step-by-step practical examples, letting you know about the common errors and solutions along with ample screenshots and code to ensure your success.

About this title

About the Author

Bharvi Dixit

Bharvi Dixit is an IT professional with an extensive experience of working on the search servers (especially Elasticsearch) and NoSQL databases. He is currently working as a technology and search expert with GrownOut, a SAAS-based referral hiring solution provider company. He is the organizer and speaker of Delhi's Elasticsearch Meetup Group, which is one of the fastest growing Elasticsearch communities in India. He also works as a freelance Elasticsearch consultant and has helped many small to medium size organizations in adapting Elasticsearch for different use cases such as, creating search solutions for big data-automated intelligence platforms in the area of counter-terrorism and risk management as well as in other domains such as recruitment, e-commerce, finance and log monitoring. He holds a master's degree in computer science from LBSIM - Delhi, India, and has a keen interest in creating scalable backend platforms. His other interest area are data analytics, distributed computing, automations, and DevOps. Java and Python are the primary languages in which he loves to write code, and he has already built a proprietary software for consultancy firms. In his spare time, he loves writing blogs and reading the latest technology books. He can be connected through LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/bharvidixit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784391018
• ISBN 13: 9781784391010
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240