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Maintaining Nested Arrays of Objects in Elasticsearch 7.13

Elasticsearch likes flattened and denormalized data. So when it comes to storing arrays of objects, you need to take some special precautions in order to maintain the relationships between each object. In this hands-on lab, you will get to configure indices in Elasticsearch such that the relationships of nested arrays of objects are properly maintained.

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Clock icon Sep 03, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create the ecommerce_fixed Index

    From the Kibana console:

    • Copy the mappings of the ecommerce index.
    • Create the ecommerce_fixed index with the copied mappings but configure the products object as nested.
    • Configure the ecommerce_fixed index with one primary and zero replica shards.

  2. Challenge

    Reindex the ecommerce Index to ecommerce_fixed Index

    From the Kibana console, reindex the ecommerce index to the ecommerce_fixed index.

  3. Challenge

    Perform a Nested Search on the Products Object of the ecommerce_fixed Index

    From the Kibana console, craft a nested search on a product object for the ecommerce_fixed index.

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