Implementing SELECT distinct user_name FROM index?

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Hi,

after reading the docs and googling for a while I got the impression it
is not possible to ask ElasticSearch for a distinct values of a document
field. I know the terms facet but it won't help me to return 100,000
values. Right?

So is there another way to ask such kind of questions? At the moment I
see only two possibilites: a) SQL and a RDBMS or b) fetching all
relevant documents ordered by the desired field and kicking out
duplicates by hand.

Bye,

Oliver

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I think for 100k, it is still OK to use a terms facet. This is going to
generate some network traffic but the issue would be the same with a RDBMS
anyway. However, I wouldn't recommend using sorting and kicking out
duplicates: this will either require deep paging or getting all results in
a single large page which are two things that would perform badly.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Oliver B. Fischer mailsink@swe-blog.netwrote:

Hi,

after reading the docs and googling for a while I got the impression it is
not possible to ask Elasticsearch for a distinct values of a document
field. I know the terms facet but it won't help me to return 100,000
values. Right?

So is there another way to ask such kind of questions? At the moment I see
only two possibilites: a) SQL and a RDBMS or b) fetching all relevant
documents ordered by the desired field and kicking out duplicates by hand.

Bye,

Oliver

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