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Elasticsearch Essentials

Elasticsearch Essentials

By : Bharvi Dixit
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Elasticsearch Essentials

Elasticsearch Essentials

4.3 (6)
By: Bharvi Dixit

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Best Elasticsearch practices in production

This section is dedicated to guide you on following the best practices and considerations to keep in mind when going into production.

Memory

  • Always choose ES_HEAP_SIZE 50% of the total available memory. Sorting and aggregations both can be memory hungry, so enough heap space to accommodate these is required. This property is set inside the /etc/init.d/elasticsearch file.
  • A machine with 64 GB of RAM is ideal; however, 32 GB and 16 GB machines are also common. Less than 8 GB tends to be counterproductive (you end up needing smaller machines), and greater than 64 GB has problems in pointer compression.

CPU

Choose a modern processor with multiple cores. If you need to choose between faster CPUs or more cores, choose more cores. The extra concurrency that multiple cores offer will far outweigh a slightly faster clock speed. The number of threads is dependent on the number of cores. The more cores you have, the more threads you get for indexing, searching...

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