Keyword Mapping Elasticsearch
Mapping is the outline of the documents stored in an index.
Keyword mapping elasticsearch. Elasticsearch 2 x had a string data type for full text search and keyword identifiers. Elasticsearch automatically creates an all field inside the mapping and copies values of each field of a document inside the all field. Originally elasticsearch provided just a single string datatype and users could set an option called index to either analyzed or not analyzed in their mapping to specify whether they wanted a string to be broken down into its individual terms upon indexing or simply indexed as is. There are more but these are the most common core datatypes.
Elasticsearch optimizes numeric fields such as integer or long for range queries. Identifiers such as an isbn or a product id are rarely used in range queries. The keyword and text datatypes haven t always been part of elasticsearch. Not all numeric data should be mapped as a numeric field data type.
It defines the data type like geo point or string and format of the fields present in the documents and rules to control the mapping of dynamically added fields. You use full text search to discover relevant text in documents while you would use keyword identifiers for sorting aggregating and filtering the documents. If i wanted multiple keywords associated with a json document how would i create the mapping for the index s field. What does the json mapping look like if i have a field that is of type.
The dynamic mapping rules can be configured to customise the mapping that is used for new fields. Here is a list of elasticsearch s core datatypes for reference. Now map each field to an elasticsearch data type by the data it will store. I use node js elasticsearch module to create mapping indices and insert documents to elasticsearch.
What was new in elasticsearch 5 0 for mapping. Elasticsearch 5 x see our full post on the full elk stack 5 0 as well as our complete guide to the elk stack comes with two new data types called text and keyword replacing. You know more about your data than elasticsearch can guess so while dynamic mapping can be useful to get started at some point you will want to specify your own explicit mappings. Elasticsearch supports a number of different datatypes for the fields in a.
One as a text type for full text search and another as keyword type which in most cases is a waste of space. However keyword fields are better for term and other term level queries.