Chapter 1. Getting Started
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Understanding nodes and clusters
- Understanding node services
- Managing your data
- Understanding clusters, replication, and sharding
- Communicating with ElasticSearch
- Using the HTTP protocol
- Using the native protocol
- Using the Thrift protocol
Introduction
To efficiently use ElasticSearch, it is very important to understand how it works.
The goal of this chapter is to give the readers an overview of the basic concepts of ElasticSearch and to be a quick reference for them. It's essential to understand the basics better so that you don't fall into the common pitfall about how ElasticSearch works and how to use it.
The key concepts that we will see in this chapter are: node, index, shard, mapping/type,
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