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Performing CRUD operations with Elasticsearch & Kibana

Lisa Jung on December 23, 2020

In the Beginner's Guide to Elasticsearch, we have mastered the basic architecture of Elasticsearch. We also got a chance to download and run Elasti...
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Rex Anthony • Edited

Hello Lisa, this is the best article I have been able to find on performing crud operations in elastic search. Thank you so much for putting in the time to write this up. Thumbs up for the gifs. Really cool.

I read somewhere that it is possible to create a schema for an elastic search index (something called a mapping). Please can you explain how this works or point me in the right direction. Thanks.

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Lisa Jung

Hi @Rex Anthony!

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment! You made my day. :)

A mapping is a schema definition that contains the names and data types of the fields of an index. It also contains information about how the fields should be indexed and stored by Lucene. Mappings map your complex JSON documents into the simple flat documents that Lucene expects.

It is a bit hard to explain how mapping works in a reply thread here. lol This Elastic documentation on mapping is a great place to get started: elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/...

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Rex Anthony

Thanks Lisa

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Lisa Jung

Hey @Rex Anthony! I recently did a workshop on Mapping and thought of you. Here is the link to the video and the repo just in case you need further explanation on mapping!

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=FQAHDrVwfok&am...
Repo: github.com/LisaHJung/Part-5-Unders...

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Rex Anthony • Edited

That's very thoughtful of you. This is super helpful. Thank you Lisa.

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Lisa Jung

You are so welcome Rex!! Glad I could help! :)

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omidhp

It was so good that I registered here to thank you

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Lisa Jung

Oh wow, thank you so much for such kind words @omidhp ! So glad you found it helpful! :)

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Sudip Sikdar

Hello Lisa , this is an awesome article for the starter. Thanks Lisa ! I am looking forward some more sessions of yours.

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Lisa Jung

Oh wow! Thank you so much for the kindest words, Sudip! You truly made my day!! :)

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Naseem Mohammed

Nice work. Very helpful.

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Lisa Jung

Thank you @naseem Mohammed. Glad you found it helpful!