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Published inDec 2013
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Alberto Paro
Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

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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In the previous chapter, we saw how it is possible to use a native client for accessing the ElasticSearch server via Java. This chapter is dedicated to Python language and how to manage common tasks via its clients.

As well as Java, ElasticSearch team supports official clients for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby (refer to the announcement post on ElasticSearch blog at http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/unleash-the-clients-ruby-python-php-perl/). They are pretty new as their initial public release was in September 2013. These clients have the following advantages against other implementations:

  • They are strongly tied to the ElasticSearch API. ElasticSearch team says These clients are direct translations of the native ElasticSearch REST interface.

  • They handle dynamic node detection and failover. They are built with a strong networking base for communicating with the cluster.

  • They have a full coverage of the REST API.

  • They share the same application approach for every language in which they...

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Published in: Dec 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782166627

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Alberto Paro

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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