Book Review: Elasticsearch in Action

Marvin
1 min readSep 13, 2018

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I read this book to deepen my cognition at searching and retrieving, heard many times about Elasticsearch, but didn’t exactly know what it is, a more functional DB than MySQL? or just more light weight and fascinating? and now I know:

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

There are many new concepts to me, such as shards, documents, types, nodes, indices etc., very sexy:

how an application sees data

This book has hundreds of illustrations like this, concise and simple, impress me much, this is another example:

Elasticsearch in the same system with another data store

Elasticsearch Tutorial:

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