Welcome back to our deep dive into Elasticsearch! So far, we’ve mastered the art of finding the right documents. We’ve become experts in queries, filters, and the mighty bool query. But what happens after you’ve retrieved your results? How do you make sense of…
Introduction If you’ve been following this series, you already know: Now it’s time for the real workhorse: the bool query.Why? Because no real-world search problem is solved by just one condition. Users expect relevance and restrictions: The bool query is…
In Part 1 of this series I walked through the foundations of Elasticsearch queries: the mental model, why mapping is your best friend, and how to choose between filters and matches. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and…
When I first got to know Elasticsearch, I told myself: “Well, this is just another database… right?”But I was wrong. Elasticsearch is actually different. It kind of feels like a mix between a search engine and a database.To be honest,…
