# Book recommendation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/book-recommendation/7781>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 21, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/book-recommendation/7781 "2012-05-21T03:35:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/book-recommendation/7781/1 "2012-05-21T03:35:01Z")

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Which book would be best to read about how to write queries, filters etc?  
On elasticsearch site it doesn't have good examples and is hard to follow  
for me. I think it assumes general knowledge of search engines. I am  
specifically looking for complicated nested searches, filters etc.

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/book-recommendation/7781/2 "2012-05-21T04:04:26Z")

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Elasticsearch is built on top of Lucene and most of the logic  
pertaining to queries, filters, scoring, analyzers, etc., apply in  
both tools (as well as Solr). That said, Lucene has terrible  
documentation but a rich history in various forums. The Lucene in  
Action book is excellent and so is the Lucene mailing list.

Cheers,

Ivan

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com) wrote:

> Which book would be best to read about how to write queries, filters etc? On  
> elasticsearch site it doesn't have good examples and is hard to follow for  
> me. I think it assumes general knowledge of search engines. I am  
> specifically looking for complicated nested searches, filters etc.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/book-recommendation/7781/3 "2017-07-06T03:27:53Z")

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