Chapter 3: Using the Bulk API | Dev Focus: Elasticsearch 2.x (Tutorial / Demo)

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In this video, we will be using Elasticsearch's Bulk API to mass index our sample dataset. Last chapter we learned how to individually index a document, but if we did that for all 150+ of our documents every time we changed our index it would take hours! Instead, we will learn how to set up our index the way we will use for the rest of the series, which uses a script to recreate the index and bulk index our documents using the Bulk API.

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[saurabheights]

I noticed how you would speed up the typing part in video, or the scripts you gave to reduce any typing at all. It keeps video short and interesting :)

[Vinay_Gurram]

Good video in short. I have a doubt at "index, type, id" here. In the video, you had a data and converted in json and then applied "index, type, id" above of each&every data. How did you do it? I checked the GitHub you shared.

Ex:{ "index" : { "_index" : "pokedex", "_type" : "pokemon", "_id" : "1" } }
{ "ndex": 1, "name": "Bulbasaur" }
{ "index" : { "_index" : "pokedex", "_type" : "pokemon", "_id" : "2" } }
{ "ndex": 2, "name": "Ivysaur" }
{ "index" : { "_index" : "pokedex", "_type" : "pokemon", "_id" : "3" } }
{ "ndex": 3, "name": "Venusaur"}

How did u take or automated this format like { "index" : { "_index" : "pokedex", "_type" : "pokemon", "_id" : "1" } }, here "id" will change of each and every data right?

Thanks advance.

[saurabheights]

Why do we have ndex and _id, isn't that replication of data? I do understand(I think I do) that one is information of a document, whereas the other is like a unique key of a document in an index. Can you confirm my doubt and what I think is my answer to that doubt?

[nikita]

how to convert a tsv file into this desired json file?

[jeniamtl]

I understand what the program does, but it's so little. I mean, almost nothing. What's the big fuss about?