How Elasticsearch Search So Fast?

Chestermo
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
4 min readJul 1, 2020

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When searching big data by Elaticsearch, it is high efficient, which contrast with database. How did it work? The core of high speed is derived from parallel computing and inverted index.

Therefore, this article will share the process of index in Elasticsearch with you. I will introduce the process of saving index, from text to inverted indexes, and talk about how Elasticsearch complete searching mission.

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Chestermo
Analytics Vidhya

Graduated from NTU and worked as a Python backend engineer in Taipei.Passionate about Learning new technologies. github: https://github.com/Chestermozhao