Introduction

This chapter covers how to manage indices and operations on documents. We'll start by discussing different operations on indices, such as create, delete, update, open and close.

After indices, we'll see how to manage mappings to complete the discussion on them started in the previous chapter and to create a base for the next chapter mainly centered on search.

In this chapter, a lot of space is given to CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) operations on records. For improved performance in indexing, it's also important to understand bulk operations and avoid their common pitfalls.

This chapter doesn't cover operations involving queries which are the main topics of the next chapter.

Also cluster operations will be discussed in the Monitor chapter because they are mainly related to control and monitor the cluster.