Elasticsearch is often the storage engine of choice for storing and querying full text data. But writing an ElasticSearch query is pretty different compared to querying a relational database in SQL. In this blogpost, you will learn some basics you need to understand before working with ElasticSearch. In the second part, you learn how to write queries in ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch uses many of the same concepts as your SQL Database. The terminology is just a little different.
Searching through full text fields with regexes in relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL is painful: The query latency is high and your results will be unordered, so you have no idea how relevant your query results are. Elasticsearch is often the storage engine of choice for storing and querying full text data. In ElasticSearch querying fulltext fields is among the least resource intensive tasks and your query results are ordered putting the most relevant results on top.
