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Vaibhav
Vaibhav

Reputation: 49

What is the purpose of score for a user in elastic search query result?

The main difference between must and filter query is the _score calculation. Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of the score shown in the query result? How can we use the score?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (1)

glenacota
glenacota

Reputation: 2547

The score gives you the relevance of a given document to the executed query. The higher the score, the more relevant is the document. For example, consider the following documents:

# Doc 1
{
  "title": "What is the purpose of score for a user in elastic search query result?"
}

# Doc 2
{
  "title": "What is the purpose of score in life?"
}

Then, if you query for a title that includes the words purpose score elastic (something you would do, for example, in the stackoverflow search bar), the first document will get a higher score and will appear on top of the list of results.

On the other hand, filters tell you whether a document matches or not the query. It is either a yes or no, therefore, it is not necessary to calculate the score.

For further details, have a read at the always very good Elastic documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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