What does the Type mean in Elasticsearch?

type in elasticsearch  Elasticsearch · HBase · Metrics · MongoDB You can define components of a given type more than once as long as the identifiers are unique  The type is just another field in Elasticsearch, at the very basic level When you do GET my_indexmy_type_search ES will run a pre-filter for

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web Run Elasticsearch: $ docker run -d --name elasticsearch --net somenetwork -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e =single-node elasticsearch:tag Copy

The Differences The crucial difference between them is that Elasticsearch will analyze the Text before it's stored into the Inverted Index We match ElasticSearch data types to Rivery data types while extracting your data If a data type is not supported, we will map it as a String type