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Elasticsearch Architecture

It is a distributed search engine based on the Lucene library. It supports quasi-real-time data retrieval NRT (near real-time), processing structured and unstructured data, and providing multitenant-capable full-text search engine capabilities with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

JIN
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11 min readDec 23, 2022

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What is Elasticsearch

  • It is a real-time distributed storage, searches, and analysis engine
  1. Real-time
  2. Distributed storage
  3. Search
  4. Analysis
  • Most of the data searched from Elasticsearch can be filtered out according to the score as long as the high score is returned to the user
  • Hence, relevant results can be found even with less accurate keywords

The Concept

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  1. Near real-time (NRT)
  • It is a slight delay (typically 1 second) from indexing a document until it is searchable

2. Node

  • It is an instance of a server that can run independently.
  • It is identified by a unique name. It determines which servers in the network correspond to which nodes in the Elasticsearch cluster
  • The unique name is important when you install multiple nodes in the same server although it is not recommended.
  • A node is also a service unit that makes up a cluster.
  • Its function is to store data and have indexing and searching capabilities.

Server: number of nodes = 1:N

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