Elasticsearch: Difference between “Term”, “Match Phrase”, and “Query String”

Question

New here to Elasticsearch and trying to get a better understanding on the difference between these queries. As far as I can tell, term matches a single term (ne

Answer 1

I think some one definitely looking for differences between them with respect to PARTIAL SEARCH Here is my analysis with default ‘standard analyzer’ :-

Suppose ,We have data :-

{ "name" : “Hello”}

Now what if we want to do partial search with ell ???

Term Query OR Match query

{"term":{"name": "*ell*" }

Will not work , return noting .

{"term":{"name": "*zz* *ell*" }

Will not work , return noting .

Conclusion - Term or Match is not able to do partial search at all

wildcard Query :-

{"wildcard":{"name": "*ell*" }

Will work give result { "name" : "Hello"}

{"wildcard":{"name": "*zz* *ell*" }

Will not work , return noting .

Conclusion - wildcard is able to do partial search with one token only

Query_string :-

{"query_string": {"default_field": "name","query": "*ell*"}

Will work give result { "name" : “Hello”}

{"query_string": {"default_field": "name","query": "*zz* *ell*" }

Will work give result { "name" : “Hello”} .

Conclusion - query_string is able to search with two token are given

-> here token are ell and zz