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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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Bulk operations

In this section, we will discuss various bulk operations Elasticsearch supports. Batching multiple requests together saves network round trips, and the requests in the batch can be executed in parallel. Elasticsearch has a dedicated thread pool for bulk operations, and the number of requests it can process in parallel depends on the number of the CPU processors in the node.

The following are the different bulk operations supported:

  • Bulk API: This can be used to batch multiple index and delete operations and execute them using a single API call.
  • Multi Get API: This can be used to retrieve documents using document IDs.
  • Update by query: This can be used to update a set of documents that match a query.
  • Delete by query: This can be used to delete the documents that match a query.
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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.
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