ElasticSearch {r}Evolution. Welcome.

elasticsearch {r}evolution
welcome.
Andrei Zmievski • ConFoo • Feb 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 12

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who am i?
curl http://localhost:9200/speaker/info/andrei
{“name”: “Andrei Zmievski”,
“works”: “AppDynamics”,
“projects”: [“PHP”, “PHP-GTK”, “Smarty”, “Unicode/i18n”],
“likes”: [“coding”, “beer”, “brewing”, “photography”],
“twitter”: “@a”,
“email”: “[email protected]”}

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what is elasticsearch?
a search engine for the NoSQL generation
domain-driven
document-oriented
distributed
RESTful
Lucene-based engine

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what has happened?
A year ago was at 0.15.0
Just released 0.19.0RC3
Continuous progress, lots of new features,
improved stability, and more
Increasing adoption, small and big companies
No cloud hosting option yet, but maybe soon

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API conventions
append ?pretty=true to get readable JSON
boolean values: false/0/off = false, rest is true
JSONP support via callback parameter

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API structure
http://host:port/[index]/[type]/[_action/id]
GET http://es:9200/twitter/_status
GET http://es:9200/twitter/tweet/1
GET http://es:9200/twitter/tweet/_search
GET http://es:9200/twitter/tweet,user/_search
GET http://es:9200/twitter,facebook/_search
GET http://es:9200/_search

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API query example
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "foo bar",
"default_operator": "AND",
"fields": ["title", "description"],
"boost": 2.0
}
},
"filter": {
"range": {"date": {"gt": "2012-‐02-‐09"}}
}
}
},
"from: 10,
"size": 10
}

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3 easy steps

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1. index
curl -‐XPOST http://localhost:9200/conf/speaker/1 -‐d'
{
"name": "Andrei Zmievski",
"talk": "ElasticSearch Revolution. Welcome.",
"likes": ["coding", "beer", "photography"],
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
}'
request
{
"ok":true
"_index":"conf"
"_type":"speaker"
"_id":"1"
}
response

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2. search
curl http://localhost:9200/conf/speaker/_search?q=beer
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_type" : "speaker",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"lives": "San Francisco",
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
total number of hits

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the index of the doc

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the type of the doc

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the id of the doc

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the hit score

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the original doc contents

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2. search
request
{ "took" : 3,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 0.5908709,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "conf",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.5908709,
"_source" :
{
"twitter": "a",
"height": 187
} } ] } }
response
the execution time

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3. proﬁt
that’s up to you

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demo

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distributed model
built for performance and resiliency
zero-conf discovery
sharding/replication
auto-routing

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transactional model
write consistency is per-document
uses write-ahead transaction log
1 second index refresh rate by default

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storage
node data considered transient
can be stored in local ﬁle system, JVM heap,
native OS memory, or FS & memory combination
gateway is a persistent storage mechanism
local, shared FS, HDFS, S3

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mapping
describes document structure
automatically created with sensible defaults, but
can be overridden per field
many field types: string, integer/long, float/double,
boolean, date, geo, array, object, and more

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sample mapping
{"user": "derick",
"title": "Don’t Panic",
"tags": ["profiling", "debugging", "php"],
"postDate": "2010-‐12-‐22T17:14:12",
"priority": 2}
document
{"post": {
"properties" : {
"user": {"type": "string", "index": "not_analyzed"},
"message": {"type": "string", “boost”: 1.5},
"tags": {"type": "string", "include_in_all": "no"},
"postDate" : {"type" : "date", “store”: “no”},
"priority" : {"type" : "integer"}
}}}
mapping

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sample mapping
{"user": "derick",
"title": "Don’t Panic",
"tags": ["profiling", "debugging", "php"],
"postDate": "2010-‐12-‐22T17:14:12",
"priority": 2}
document
{"post": {
"properties" : {
"user": {"type": "string", "index": "not_analyzed"},
"message": {"type": "string", “boost”: 1.5},
"tags": {"type": "string", "include_in_all": "no"},
"postDate" : {"type" : "date", “store”: “no”},
"priority" : {"type" : "integer"} not really needed
}}}
mapping

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analyzers
break down (tokenize) and normalize ﬁelds during
indexing and query strings at search time
index:
analysis:
analyzer:
eulang:
type: custom
tokenizer: standard
filter: [standard, lowercase, stop,
asciifolding, porterStem]
elasticsearch.yml
…
"title": {"type": "string", "analyzer": "eulang"},
…
mapping

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ﬁlters
share some similar features with queries
apply to the result of the query
why use a ﬁlter?

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filters
faster than queries
cached (depends on the filter)
the cache is used for different queries against
the same filter
no scoring
more useful ones: term, terms, range, prefix, and,
or, not, exists, missing, query

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facets
provide aggregated data based on the search
request
usual purpose is to offer a faceted navigation, or
faceted search (EBay and more)
facet types: terms, histogram, date histogram,
range, statistical, and more

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rivers
pluggable service running within the cluster
pulls in data from external sources and indexes it
automatic failover
current: Twitter, MongoDB, CouchDB, RabbitMQ,
RSS, Wikipedia

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percolator
turns searching on its head
search: index docs and run queries for matches
percolator: index queries and run docs for
matches
great feature for notiﬁcation/triggers
implementation

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index aliases
each index name can have one or more aliases
atomic renames allow on-the-ﬂy index switching
actual index: tweets{date}
alias: tweets
on update, create new index and switch alias

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filtered index aliases
allows creation of “views” into an index
associates a filter with an alias
curl -‐XPOST http://localhost:9200/_aliases -‐d'
{
"actions" : [
{
"add" : {
"index" : "posts",
"alias" : "posts_by_andrei",
"filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "andrei" } }
}
}
]
}'
filtered alias

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parent/child docs
_parent ﬁeld in mapping
establishes relationship between doc types, e.g.
comment and post
used with has_child and top_children queries

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geo search
implemented as ﬁlters (and a facet)
geo_distance
geo_bounding_box
geo_polygon

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plugins
add custom functionality to ES
written in Java
installable from GitHub
custom mapping types, scripting language
support, custom discovery, admin tools, and more

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interfaces
REST
Java / Groovy
clients/integration:
Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Erlang, Django, Drupal,
Symfony2, CouchDB, Flume,
Flume sink implementation

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data import
ES is not the primary data store (usually)
to import/synchronize data:
write an agent (Gearman, message queues, etc)
use a river plugin (CouchDB, RabbitMQ, Twitter)

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References
http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
https://groups.google.com/group/elasticsearch
IRC: #elasticsearch on irc.freenode.net
twitter: @elasticsearch
Useful tutorials:
Query DSL Explained
ElasticSearch on EC2

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Merci!
http://joind.in/5998

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ElasticSearch {r}Evolution. Welcome.

ElasticSearch {r}Evolution. Welcome.

Andrei Zmievski

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