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Published inJun 2017
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ISBN-139781787128453
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Abhishek Andhavarapu
Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
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Difference between full-text search and exact match

In this section, we will describe analyzers and why they are necessary for text search. Let's say we have a document containing the following information:

{
"date": "2017/02/01",
"desc": "It will be raining in yosemite this weekend"
}

If we want to search for the documents that contain word yosemite, we could run an SQL query as shown here:

select * from news where desc like '%yosemite%'

This functionality is very limited and is never sufficient for real-world text-search queries. For example, if a user is looking for the weather forecast in Yosemite, he/she would query for the same in human language using something such as rain in yosemite. Since SQL can only match the exact words, and the document doesn't contain the word rain, the query will not come back with...

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Published in: Jun 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787128453

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Abhishek Andhavarapu

Abhishek Andhavarapu is a software engineer at eBay who enjoys working on highly scalable distributed systems. He has a master's degree in Distributed Computing and has worked on multiple enterprise Elasticsearch applications, which are currently serving hundreds of millions of requests per day. He began his journey with Elasticsearch in 2012 to build an analytics engine to power dashboards and quickly realized that Elasticsearch is like nothing out there for search and analytics. He has been a strong advocate since then and wrote this book to share the practical knowledge he gained along the way.
Read more about Abhishek Andhavarapu