elasticsearch – A Girl Among Geeks

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ElasticSearch has a Windows Installer!

Yes, ElasticSearch can be now installed and used much easier (that’s probably not a breaking news because I’m writing about it after one month since I have got a confirmed info) but summer is not the best time for writing a blog’s post ?.)!

In this post I will focus on the dilemma – when exactly a .msi file can be useful and when it is better to stick to the old fashioned command line. At the end of the post I also added some personal experiences with ElasticSearch logs when working with ES as a service and when running it from a command line. Continue Reading

DSP2017

ElasticSearch – part 2. Bool Query (searching basis)

Last time we talked about creating indexes. We also searched our index in some easy manner. Today I would like to focus on other search-alike operations – bool queries.

BTW If you can’t wait to write some “real” code in C#, stay tuned, we will do it in the near future.

DSP2017

‘The syntax of the command is incorrect.’ while firing elasticsearch.bat for the first time

Recently I wanted to run ElasticSearch (here I wrote how to do it) on the fresh copy of Windows. So, I downloaded the package, typed

elasticsearch.bat

in CMD and I got this error:

The syntax of the command is incorrect.

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DSP2017

ElasticSearch – part 1. A warm-up!

Last week I wrote about installing ElasticSearch on your local machine. Today I will focus on using this search engine – indexing and searching for data.
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DSP2017, DSP2017 Project

How I fell in love with Elasticsearch and hated Java even more than before

This week I spent some time with ElasticSearch. I thought it would be nice to get a little know-how in case a companies table in my pet project’s database grows up so much that searching for a data will last forever. Well, considering the fact that one of the two most important features in my project is searching, I can’t believe I didn’t think about it earlier!

A few possibilities

There is a few search engines I could use. I was considering a Lucene (but it’s so old… I remember using it about 6 years ago!), Solr (I heard it’s the fastest one) and ElasticSearch (some says it’s aimed for bigger projects). So I decided on ElasticSearch… my project is gonna be huge, right? 😛 Continue Reading