Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is similar to other document-noSQL databases.

Metadata

All documents in Elasticsearch contain the following metadata fields.

Cheatsheet

Check cluster health

$ curl -H "Content-type:application/json" "<elasticsearch url>/_cluster/health" | python -m json.tool

Create a new document

$ curl -XPOST '<elasticsearch url>/<index>/<type>' -d '{ "<field>": "<value>" }'

Update an existing document

$ curl -XPUT '<elasticsearch url>/<index>/<type>/<uid>' -d '{ "<field>": "<value>" }'

Delete a document

$ curl -XDELETE '<elasticsearch url>/<index>/<type>/<uid>'

Check if document exists

$ curl -XHEAD '<elasticsearch url>/<index>/<type>/<uid>'

All

Index

Indexes are used to group documents. This is provided purely for your convenience. Elasticsearch doesn’t enforce any conventions about how you use indexes.

Type

You don’t need to create a unique index for all the data in your application. You can add extra granularity to the data in an index by specifying types. For instance, in the index Instance Health, you might create the types CPU,MEM, and Network.

Mapping

All Elasticsearch data fields are mapped to a specific type.

Get mappings for index

$ curl -XGET <url>/<index>/_mapping

Get mapping for field

Fields can be a comma separated list to get multiple values.

$ curl -XGET <url>/<index>/_mapping/<type>/field/<fields>