Built-in analyzers

Elasticsearch comes with several analyzers in its standard installation. In the following table, some analyzers are described:

Analyzer

Description

Standard Analyzer

This uses Standard Tokenizer to divide text. Other components are Standard Token Filter, Lower Case Token Filter, and Stop Token Filter. It normalizes tokens, lowercases tokens, and also removes unwanted tokens. By default, Elasticsearch applies the standard analyzer.

Simple Analyzer

This uses Letter Tokenizer to divide text. Another component is Lower Case Tokenizer. It lowercases tokens.

Whitespace Analyzer

This uses Whitespace Tokenizer to divide text at spaces.

Stop Analyzer

This uses Letter Tokenizer to divide text. Other components are Lower Case ...

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