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Glossary of terms
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- alias
- A pointer to one or more indices. See Index Aliases in the official Elasticsearch documentation for more information.
- bloom
- This refers to a Bloom filter cache. A Bloom filter can be used to speed up answers in a key-value storage system. Beginning with version 1.4, Elasticsearch no longer uses a Bloom filter cache for search operations.
- command
- An operation to perform on one or more indices or snapshots. See Commands.
- subcommand
- A command which is nested, or comes after, a prior command. See Subcommands.
- time-unit
-
One of
hours,days,weeks, ormonths. When acting on time-series indices, the --time-unit is used for time calculation. - timestring
-
A Python strftime string to match your index
definition. 2014.07.15 would be
%Y.%m.%d. See --timestring.