Best Practices of Using ElasticSearch

Explaining how to use ElasticSearch in a better way

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Last time, we have introduced some tips for boosting ElasticSearch performance.

Boosting Elasticsearch Cluster Performance: 3 Proven Tips

In addition, that article explains the underlying details of ElasticSearch. This time, we are going to talk a little more about best practices for using ElasticSearch.

These practices are general recommendations and can be applied to any use cases. Let’s go.

• Bulk Requests: The Bulk API makes it possible to perform many index/delete operations in a single API call. This can greatly increase the
  indexing speed. Each subrequest is executed independently, so the failure of one subrequest won’t affect the success of the others. If
  any of the requests fail, the top-level error flag is set to true and the error details will be reported under the relevant request.
• Multithread clients to Index Data: A single thread sending bulk requests is unlikely to be able to max out the indexing capacity of an
  ElasticSearch cluster. In order to use all resources of the…