# ElasticSearch Reference Documentation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498 "2016-07-01T05:14:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rkqatelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@rkqatelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkqatelastic)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498/1 "2016-07-01T05:14:21Z")

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Hi ElasticSearch team,

I am a user of both Solr and ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch has lots of advantage over Solr, but it has big shortage compared with Solr: ElasticSearch's reference documentation is not good as Solr's. For example, there is no exhaustive description about ElasticSearch's configuration file elasticsearch.yml in one central place rather scattered all over the reference documentation; thent lacks completeness. After I go through the whole reference documentation, I can't get the complete picture about the query and aggregation syntax. If you like to get more concrete what I'm talking about, you could refer to Solr's link [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Searching](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Searching). Solr does much better than ElasticSearch on these things.  
ElasticSearch is a great product, I look forward to it becoming better.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498/2 "2016-07-01T06:43:09Z")

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Did you read the book and this chapter? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/search-in-depth.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/search-in-depth.html)

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**Author:** ![rkqatelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@rkqatelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkqatelastic)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498/3 "2016-07-04T02:14:01Z")

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Yes, I did.

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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 5, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-reference-documentation/54498/4 "2017-07-05T22:38:44Z")

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