Elastic search exact match

Question

I\'m using elasticsearch and am having a devil of a time getting an exact match to happen. I\'ve tried various combinations of match, query_string, etc, and I either get not

Answer 1

I think that your problem is that field term is being analyzed (check your mapping) with the standard analyzer and is filtering stopwords such as the or that. For that reason you get the same score for Dog and The Dog. So maybe you can solve your problem by configuring a custom analyzer => documentation page