I am new to elastic search and I am confused between must and filter. I want to perform an and operation between my terms, so I did this
POST /xyz/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"city": "city1"
}
},
{
"term": {
"saleType": "sale_type1"
}
}
]
}
}
}
which gave me the required results matching both the terms, and on using filter like this
POST /xyz/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"city": "city1"
}
}
],
"filter": {
"term": {
"saleType": "sale_type1"
}
}
}
}
}
I get the same result, so when should I use must and when should I use filter? What is the difference?
must
contributes to the score. In filter
, the score of the query is ignored.
In both must
and filter
, the clause(query) must appear in matching documents. This is the reason for getting same results.
You may check this link
Score
The relevance score of each document is represented by a positive floating-point number called the
_score
. The higher the_score
, the more relevant the document.
A query clause generates a _score
for each document.
To know how score is calculated, refer this link