Managing your data
If you are going to use ElasticSearch as a search engine or a distributed data store, it's important to understand concepts of how ElasticSearch stores and manages your data.
Getting ready
To work with ElasticSearch data, a user must have basic concepts of data management and JSON data format, which is the lingua franca to work with ElasticSearch data and services.
How it works...
Our main data container is called index (plural indices) and it can be considered as a database in the traditional SQL world. In an index, the data is grouped into data types called mappings in ElasticSearch. A mapping describes how the records are composed (fields).
Every record that must be stored in ElasticSearch must be a JSON object.
Natively, ElasticSearch ...
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