#ElasticSearch

ElasticSearch Bliss with ElasticUtils

While Django Haystack remains the go to recommendation for adding simple search indexing to your Django sites, you can quickly outgrow the simplified “bag of text” data model that haystack attempts to unify the various supported indexing engines. Depending on your use case, you eventually need to customize the tokenizers, scoring, spell correct, autocomplete, etc. These more advanced use cases no longer work commonly across backends forcing you to leave the comfort of Haystack for native APIs for your chosen indexer. ElasticUtils is a newer project from the fine folks at Mozilla that exposes much of the rich capabilities of ElasticSearch in a more elegant, pythonic interface. Much like an ORM can simplify the process of generating SQL for your databsae queries, ElasticUtils provides a streamlined interface for generating search queries for the ElasticSearch Query DSL.