Category Archives: ElasticSearch

ElasticSearch for dummies, or why you can’t find what you just indexed

Posted on September 16, 2016 by

So, let’s say you are starting to use ElasticSearch. You have created a new index and put some data there. Then you go and try to search by one of the fields… and can’t find a thing. How can this … Continue reading →

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ElasticSearch – query with cURL

Posted on January 10, 2014 by

This will be a very short post. Actually, its purpose is to remind myself of the ways to query ES from terminal. Why do it from terminal when there’s a nice ES web console (elasticsearch-head plugin)? Well suppose you don’t … Continue reading →

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Elasticsearch – why have index_analyzer AND search_analyzer

Posted on July 13, 2013 by

In our projects, we use Elasticsearch for indexing data. It’s a text search engine built over Lucene indexes. Recently I was investigating a bug about how the system wasn’t finding something it was supposed to find using a specific query. … Continue reading →

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