This article explains how to filter results. Remember that there are two query contexts; the query context and filter context. Queries that are in query context affect the relevance scores of documents depending on how well they match, while queries in a filter context do not affect relevance scores. Therefore, filter queries can be used… read more

In this article I will show you how to change the number of documents returned in the result set. I will start by showing you how to do it with query string searches. It’s as simple as adding a size parameter as I will show you in the following query. GET /ecommerce/product/_search?q=name:pasta&size=2 Notice that I… read more

In this article, you will learn how to do pagination in Elasticsearch. In the previous article, I introduced the size parameter, which I will also be using to paginate through search results. While the size parameter specifies how many documents should be returned in the results, the from parameter specifies which document index to start… read more

In this article we will be taking a look at how to sort the search results. When retrieving documents from Elasticsearch, it is possible to sort the search results. If you are familiar with relational databases, then this is equivalent of the ORDER BY query clause. I will perform a search for the term pasta… read more

Aggregations are a way of grouping and extracting statistics from your data. In case you are familiar with relational databases, you can think of this as the equivalent of SQL’s GROUP BY clause and aggregate functions such as SUM. Interestingly, Elasticsearch provides a rather powerful feature that allows you to execute searches and return hits… read more