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Wai Tak Wong
Wai Tak Wong
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Wai Tak Wong

Wai Tak Wong is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, NJ, USA. He has more than 15 years professional experience in cloud software design and development. His PhD in computer science was obtained at NJIT, NJ, USA. Wai Tak has served as an associate professor in the Information Management Department of Chung Hua University, Taiwan. A co-founder of Shanghai Shellshellfish Information Technology, Wai Tak acted as the Chief Scientist of the R&D team, and he has published more than a dozen algorithms in prestigious journals and conferences. Wai Tak began his search and analytics technology career with Elasticsearch in the real estate market and later applied this to data management and FinTech data services.
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Advanced index management APIs

Some index APIs can reduce overhead in specific use cases and improve overall query performance. In this section, we'll discuss how to split the index into more than one primary shard by using the Split API or vice versa by using the _shrink API. Moreover, you can roll over from an old index to a new index on purpose.

Split index

This API allows you to transform an existing index into a new one while the original primary shard is split into two or more primary shards. The primary shards of the new index must be a factor of the original primary shard. The steps are as follows:

  1. Use a PUT request to set the source index in read-only mode by updating the setting of the index, and it must...
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Published in: Aug 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789957754

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Wai Tak Wong

Wai Tak Wong is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, NJ, USA. He has more than 15 years professional experience in cloud software design and development. His PhD in computer science was obtained at NJIT, NJ, USA. Wai Tak has served as an associate professor in the Information Management Department of Chung Hua University, Taiwan. A co-founder of Shanghai Shellshellfish Information Technology, Wai Tak acted as the Chief Scientist of the R&D team, and he has published more than a dozen algorithms in prestigious journals and conferences. Wai Tak began his search and analytics technology career with Elasticsearch in the real estate market and later applied this to data management and FinTech data services.
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