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Bulk queries in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is devoted to store big amount of data. Making some operations as indexing them can be costly. It's one of the reasons Elasticsearch adopted the same features as in the most of principal RDBMS, batch operations - in Elasticsearch known as bulk operations.

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Queries in Elasticsearch

Using Elasticsearch without querying is a little bit strange activity. After all, the name of this document-oriented database is composed by "search" suffix.

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Connection modes in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch has a powerful RESTful web service. But it's only one from available methods to connect our application to server.

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Elasticsearch architecture and vocabulary

Every time before starting to learn new technology, we need to appropriate its specific vocabulary. In the case of Elasticsearch, this vocabulary is mostly related to the architecture terms.

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Elasticsearch and some concepts of document-oriented database

Every NoSQL solution has some basic concepts associated to it. For example, in graph databases we'll talk about nodes in different meaning than in document-oriented and clustered databases such as ElasticSearch (ElasticSearchSearch). This article will present some of concepts specific to ElasticSearch search engine.

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Managing hierarchical data in MySQL - closure table

Until then we approached 3 ways to manage hierarchical data in MySQL : adjacency, nested set and path enumeration. There remains one method which will be covered in this article, closure table, called adjacency relation too.

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Managing hierarchical data in MySQL - path enumeration

Previously we saw that they are already two methods, adjacency list and nested set model, to manage hierarchical data in RDBMS. But it's not all. A third method, called path enumeration, permits to handle trees on relational database too.

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Managing hierarchical data in MySQL - nested set

Another way to manipulate hierarchical data in MySQL are nested sets. This approach uses an interesting technique to represent hierarchies of data.

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Managing hierarchical data in MySQL - adjacency list

Unlike XML files, RDBMS (relation database management system) are the flat and non hierarchical structures. So, the developer has to make a supplementary effort to transform database data into tree structures. With this article, we inaugurate the set of articles dedicated to managing hierarchical data in RDBMS. For our example, we will use the most famous system, MySQL.

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