Feb. 7, 2024, 11:50 a.m. | Iulia Feroli

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This blog will introduce you to some core concepts and building blocks of working with the official Elasticsearch Python client. We will cover connecting to the client, creating and populating an index, adding a custom mapping, and running some initial simple queries.


But wait, what is Elasticsearch? Elastic is a platform offering search-powered solutions - from the Elasticsearch engine to observability and dashboarding solutions like Kibaba, security software, and much more.


Elasticsearch is based on Lucene and is used by …

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