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Search APIsedit
Most search APIs are multi-index, multi-type, with the exception of the Explain API endpoints.
Routingedit
When executing a search, it will be broadcast to all the index/indices
shards (round robin between replicas). Which shards will be searched on
can be controlled by providing the routing
parameter. For example,
when indexing tweets, the routing value can be the user name:
$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet?routing=kimchy' -d '{ "user" : "kimchy", "postDate" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch" } '
In such a case, if we want to search only on the tweets for a specific user, we can specify it as the routing, resulting in the search hitting only the relevant shard:
$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search?routing=kimchy' -d '{ "query": { "filtered" : { "query" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "some query string here" } }, "filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" } } } } } '
The routing parameter can be multi valued represented as a comma separated string. This will result in hitting the relevant shards where the routing values match to.
Stats Groupsedit
A search can be associated with stats groups, which maintains a statistics aggregation per group. It can later be retrieved using the indices stats API specifically. For example, here is a search body request that associate the request with two different groups:
{ "query" : { "match_all" : {} }, "stats" : ["group1", "group2"] }