# How to do the autocomplete/suggestion with elastic search and couchdb

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-the-autocomplete-suggestion-with-elastic-search-and-couchdb/9527>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 2, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-the-autocomplete-suggestion-with-elastic-search-and-couchdb/9527 "2012-11-02T11:29:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![choudharynarendra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@choudharynarendra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/choudharynarendra)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-the-autocomplete-suggestion-with-elastic-search-and-couchdb/9527/1 "2012-11-02T11:29:23Z")

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Hi ,

I am new to the elastic search and want to implement the auto-complete/suggestion on key pressed based on the documents which i have in the couchdb.. what i have done is stored the profiles in the form of json in couchdb and i have made the river plugin to link that db in the elastic-search.

Can any body suggest me how to go ahead with the approach for the autocomplete/suggestions.

Thanks  
Narendra

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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:** [November 6, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-the-autocomplete-suggestion-with-elastic-search-and-couchdb/9527/2 "2012-11-06T13:13:03Z")

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You should first define a mapping for your fields and use a EdgeNGram analyzer.

Or you can use the suggester plugin: [GitHub - spinscale/elasticsearch-suggest-plugin: Plugin for elasticsearch which uses the lucene FSTSuggester](https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-suggest-plugin)

Does it help?

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David 😉  
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Le 2 nov. 2012 à 12:29, choudharynarendra [choudharynarendra@gmail.com](mailto:choudharynarendra@gmail.com) a écrit :

> Hi ,
> 
> I am new to the Elasticsearch and want to implement the  
> auto-complete/suggestion on key pressed based on the documents which i have  
> in the couchdb.. what i have done is stored the profiles in the form of json  
> in couchdb and i have made the river plugin to link that db in the  
> elastic-search.
> 
> Can any body suggest me how to go ahead with the approach for the  
> autocomplete/suggestions.
> 
> Thanks  
> Narendra
> 
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-the-autocomplete-suggestion-with-elastic-search-and-couchdb/9527/3 "2017-07-06T03:05:57Z")

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