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DemiDust
DemiDust

Reputation: 333

Elasticsearch fuzzy query and match with fuzziness

So i saw these two queries. First one is match with fuzziness option

{
    "query": {
       "match": {
         "user": {
           "query": "ki",
           "fuzziness": "AUTO"
         }
       }
    }
}

Second one is normal fuzzy search

{
"query": {
    "fuzzy": {
        "user": {
            "value": "ki"
         }
      }
   } 
}

Result is pretty much the same. But my question is, does the query really does the same structure? and which one to use for fuzziness best practice?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2842

Answers (1)

Adam T
Adam T

Reputation: 1701

In your example the results are the same. However, the fuzzy query behaves like a term query, so it does not perform analysis beforehand, whereas the match query does.

So if you searched for an address field containing pigeon street and indexed with a standard analyser, this query would work

GET my-index/_search
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "address": {
                "query": "wigeon street",
                "fuzziness": 1
            }
        }
    }
}

but this one would not:

GET my-index/_search
{
    "query": {
        "fuzzy": {
            "address": {
                "value": "wigeon street"
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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