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Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Using span queries

The big difference between standard databases (SQL and also many NoSQL databases) and Elasticsearch is the number of facilities used to express text queries. The span query family is a group of queries that controls a sequence of text tokens using their positions: standard queries don't take care of the positional presence of text tokens.

Span queries allow you to define several kinds of queries:

  • The exact phrase query.
  • The exact fragment query (that is, take off and give up).
  • Partial exact phrase with a slop (other tokens between the searched terms, that is, the man with slop 2 can also match the strong man, the old wise man, and more).

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe of Chapter 1Getting Started.

To execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as Curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), Postman (https...

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Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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