OpenSearch/docs/reference/analysis/tokenizers/edgengram-tokenizer.asciidoc
Jason Tedor 4a4e3d70d5
Default to one shard (#30539)
This commit changes the default out-of-the-box configuration for the
number of shards from five to one. We think this will help address a
common problem of oversharding. For users with time-based indices that
need a different default, this can be managed with index templates. For
users with non-time-based indices that find they need to re-shard with
the split API in place they no longer need to resort only to
reindexing.

Since this has the impact of changing the default number of shards used
in REST tests, we want to ensure that we still have coverage for issues
that could arise from multiple shards. As such, we randomize (rarely)
the default number of shards in REST tests to two. This is managed via a
global index template. However, some tests check the templates that are
in the cluster state during the test. Since this template is randomly
there, we need a way for tests to skip adding the template used to set
the number of shards to two. For this we add the default_shards feature
skip. To avoid having to write our docs in a complicated way because
sometimes they might be behind one shard, and sometimes they might be
behind two shards we apply the default_shards feature skip to all docs
tests. That is, these tests will always run with the default number of
shards (one).
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[[analysis-edgengram-tokenizer]]
=== Edge NGram Tokenizer
The `edge_ngram` tokenizer first breaks text down into words whenever it
encounters one of a list of specified characters, then it emits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram[N-grams] of each word where the start of
the N-gram is anchored to the beginning of the word.
Edge N-Grams are useful for _search-as-you-type_ queries.
TIP: When you need _search-as-you-type_ for text which has a widely known
order, such as movie or song titles, the
<<search-suggesters-completion,completion suggester>> is a much more efficient
choice than edge N-grams. Edge N-grams have the advantage when trying to
autocomplete words that can appear in any order.
[float]
=== Example output
With the default settings, the `edge_ngram` tokenizer treats the initial text as a
single token and produces N-grams with minimum length `1` and maximum length
`2`:
[source,js]
---------------------------
POST _analyze
{
"tokenizer": "edge_ngram",
"text": "Quick Fox"
}
---------------------------
// CONSOLE
/////////////////////
[source,js]
----------------------------
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "Q",
"start_offset": 0,
"end_offset": 1,
"type": "word",
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "Qu",
"start_offset": 0,
"end_offset": 2,
"type": "word",
"position": 1
}
]
}
----------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE
/////////////////////
The above sentence would produce the following terms:
[source,text]
---------------------------
[ Q, Qu ]
---------------------------
NOTE: These default gram lengths are almost entirely useless. You need to
configure the `edge_ngram` before using it.
[float]
=== Configuration
The `edge_ngram` tokenizer accepts the following parameters:
[horizontal]
`min_gram`::
Minimum length of characters in a gram. Defaults to `1`.
`max_gram`::
Maximum length of characters in a gram. Defaults to `2`.
`token_chars`::
Character classes that should be included in a token. Elasticsearch
will split on characters that don't belong to the classes specified.
Defaults to `[]` (keep all characters).
+
Character classes may be any of the following:
+
* `letter` -- for example `a`, `b`, `ï` or `京`
* `digit` -- for example `3` or `7`
* `whitespace` -- for example `" "` or `"\n"`
* `punctuation` -- for example `!` or `"`
* `symbol` -- for example `$` or `√`
[float]
=== Example configuration
In this example, we configure the `edge_ngram` tokenizer to treat letters and
digits as tokens, and to produce grams with minimum length `2` and maximum
length `10`:
[source,js]
----------------------------
PUT my_index
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"my_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "my_tokenizer"
}
},
"tokenizer": {
"my_tokenizer": {
"type": "edge_ngram",
"min_gram": 2,
"max_gram": 10,
"token_chars": [
"letter",
"digit"
]
}
}
}
}
}
POST my_index/_analyze
{
"analyzer": "my_analyzer",
"text": "2 Quick Foxes."
}
----------------------------
// CONSOLE
/////////////////////
[source,js]
----------------------------
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "Qu",
"start_offset": 2,
"end_offset": 4,
"type": "word",
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "Qui",
"start_offset": 2,
"end_offset": 5,
"type": "word",
"position": 1
},
{
"token": "Quic",
"start_offset": 2,
"end_offset": 6,
"type": "word",
"position": 2
},
{
"token": "Quick",
"start_offset": 2,
"end_offset": 7,
"type": "word",
"position": 3
},
{
"token": "Fo",
"start_offset": 8,
"end_offset": 10,
"type": "word",
"position": 4
},
{
"token": "Fox",
"start_offset": 8,
"end_offset": 11,
"type": "word",
"position": 5
},
{
"token": "Foxe",
"start_offset": 8,
"end_offset": 12,
"type": "word",
"position": 6
},
{
"token": "Foxes",
"start_offset": 8,
"end_offset": 13,
"type": "word",
"position": 7
}
]
}
----------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE
/////////////////////
The above example produces the following terms:
[source,text]
---------------------------
[ Qu, Qui, Quic, Quick, Fo, Fox, Foxe, Foxes ]
---------------------------
Usually we recommend using the same `analyzer` at index time and at search
time. In the case of the `edge_ngram` tokenizer, the advice is different. It
only makes sense to use the `edge_ngram` tokenizer at index time, to ensure
that partial words are available for matching in the index. At search time,
just search for the terms the user has typed in, for instance: `Quick Fo`.
Below is an example of how to set up a field for _search-as-you-type_:
[source,js]
-----------------------------------
PUT my_index
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"autocomplete": {
"tokenizer": "autocomplete",
"filter": [
"lowercase"
]
},
"autocomplete_search": {
"tokenizer": "lowercase"
}
},
"tokenizer": {
"autocomplete": {
"type": "edge_ngram",
"min_gram": 2,
"max_gram": 10,
"token_chars": [
"letter"
]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"_doc": {
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "autocomplete",
"search_analyzer": "autocomplete_search"
}
}
}
}
}
PUT my_index/_doc/1
{
"title": "Quick Foxes" <1>
}
POST my_index/_refresh
GET my_index/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"title": {
"query": "Quick Fo", <2>
"operator": "and"
}
}
}
}
-----------------------------------
// CONSOLE
<1> The `autocomplete` analyzer indexes the terms `[qu, qui, quic, quick, fo, fox, foxe, foxes]`.
<2> The `autocomplete_search` analyzer searches for the terms `[quick, fo]`, both of which appear in the index.
/////////////////////
[source,js]
----------------------------
{
"took": $body.took,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"skipped" : 0,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max_score": 0.5753642,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "my_index",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "1",
"_score": 0.5753642,
"_source": {
"title": "Quick Foxes"
}
}
]
}
}
----------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"took".*/"took": "$body.took",/]
/////////////////////