search.rst

search

Table of contents

• Description
• Syntax
• Cross-Cluster Search
• Example 1: Fetch all the data
• Example 2: Fetch data with condition

Description

Using search command to retrieve document from the index. search command could be only used as the first command in the PPL query.

Syntax

search source=[<remote-cluster>:]<index> [boolean-expression]

• search: search keywords, which could be ignore.
• index: mandatory. search command must specify which index to query from. The index name can be prefixed by "<cluster name>:" for cross-cluster search.
• bool-expression: optional. any expression which could be evaluated to boolean value.

Cross-Cluster Search

Cross-cluster search lets any node in a cluster execute search requests against other clusters. Refer to Cross-Cluster Search for configuration.

Example 1: Fetch all the data

The example show fetch all the document from accounts index.

PPL query:

os> source=accounts;
fetched rows / total rows = 4/4
+------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+-----------------------+------------+
| account_number   | firstname   | address              | balance   | gender   | city   | employer   | state   | age   | email                 | lastname   |
|------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+-----------------------+------------|
| 1                | Amber       | 880 Holmes Lane      | 39225     | M        | Brogan | Pyrami     | IL      | 32    | [email protected]  | Duke       |
| 6                | Hattie      | 671 Bristol Street   | 5686      | M        | Dante  | Netagy     | TN      | 36    | [email protected] | Bond       |
| 13               | Nanette     | 789 Madison Street   | 32838     | F        | Nogal  | Quility    | VA      | 28    | null                  | Bates      |
| 18               | Dale        | 467 Hutchinson Court | 4180      | M        | Orick  | null       | MD      | 33    | [email protected]   | Adams      |
+------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+-----------------------+------------+

Example 2: Fetch data with condition

The example show fetch all the document from accounts index with .

PPL query:

os> source=accounts account_number=1 or gender="F";
fetched rows / total rows = 2/2
+------------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+----------------------+------------+
| account_number   | firstname   | address            | balance   | gender   | city   | employer   | state   | age   | email                | lastname   |
|------------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+----------------------+------------|
| 1                | Amber       | 880 Holmes Lane    | 39225     | M        | Brogan | Pyrami     | IL      | 32    | [email protected] | Duke       |
| 13               | Nanette     | 789 Madison Street | 32838     | F        | Nogal  | Quility    | VA      | 28    | null                 | Bates      |
+------------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------+----------+--------+------------+---------+-------+----------------------+------------+