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[[java-facets]]
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== Facets
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Faceted search refers to a way to explore large amounts of data by displaying
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summaries about various partitions of the data and later allowing to narrow
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the navigation to a specific partition.
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In Elasticsearch, `facets` are also the name of a feature that allowed to
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compute these summaries. `facets` have been replaced by
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<<java-aggs, aggregations>> in Elasticsearch 1.0, which are a superset
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of facets.
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