Grouping by non-numeric fields

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Hi,

I would like to write a query in ES that shows counts for each
person's name, equivalent to the following SQL query:

select name, count() from people group by name;

I found a similar request here: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/#issue/539

Does this feature already exist in the most recent version of ES? If
yes, which facet should I use? I looked at terms and histogram facets,
and they don't seem to be appropriate.

If anyone has implemented this before, please share your knowledge.

Thank you,
Eugene.

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Term facets should be what you are looking for. You may have to use a
multifield depending on your current analyzer. You'd probably want to
use a keyword analyzer on the field you facet on.

Regards,
Paul

On Mar 16, 1:19 pm, eugene efur...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I would like to write a query in ES that shows counts for each
person's name, equivalent to the following SQL query:

select name, count() from people group by name;

I found a similar request here:Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub

Does this feature already exist in the most recent version of ES? If
yes, which facet should I use? I looked at terms and histogram facets,
and they don't seem to be appropriate.

If anyone has implemented this before, please share your knowledge.

Thank you,
Eugene.