Getting all the distinct values of a field

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Hi Team,

One of our use cases is to get all the distinct values of a particular field. For e. g. if we are querying against Oracle database we can execute below query :

select distinct column_name from table_name

The above query gives us all the distinct values of column 'column_name' from the table 'table_name'.

We need something similar in Elastic Search. Please provide inputs on how this can be achieved in Elastic Search Java API.

Thanks..

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If the column_name is indexed with a keyword analyzer then you can
facet over that field:

Peter.

On 19 Jan., 09:13, ElasticUsers kranti_...@rediffmail.com wrote:

Hi Team,

One of our use cases is to get all the distinct values of a particular
field. For e. g. if we are querying against Oracle database we can execute
below query :

select distinct column_name from table_name

The above query gives us all the distinct values of column 'column_name'
from the table 'table_name'.

We need something similar in Elastic Search. Please provide inputs on how
this can be achieved in Elastic Search Java API.

Thanks..

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There was a discussion about this functionality not too long ago and
an issue was opened:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Karussell tableyourtime@googlemail.com wrote:

If the column_name is indexed with a keyword analyzer then you can
facet over that field:

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Peter.

On 19 Jan., 09:13, ElasticUsers kranti_...@rediffmail.com wrote:

Hi Team,

One of our use cases is to get all the distinct values of a particular
field. For e. g. if we are querying against Oracle database we can execute
below query :

select distinct column_name from table_name

The above query gives us all the distinct values of column 'column_name'
from the table 'table_name'.

We need something similar in Elastic Search. Please provide inputs on how
this can be achieved in Elastic Search Java API.

Thanks..

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Hi all just want to ask if what if the unique values that im currently querying distinct values on ES has special characters.

example:

"user090@sample.com"

it doesn't get the exact value, it gets the count separately for user090, sample, com