High level Elasticsearch properties

High-level mapping properties that are optimized for the data that they are representing.

In programming you have field types called strings, that can be any possible text combination in the world.

• A Product Color
• A Country Name
• An Address
• Tags

String is simply too generic, especially in a business context.

Take for example the name field of a product data structure from an online shop.

The same name field has a customer in an insurance company database.

So since strings can mean many things, we decided to narrow string types down to more expressive fields.

Instead of using string or text, we created the following:

• Name
• Address
• HTML
• Category

Take Category for example, in an E-Shop, it can be the product Color or Type like shoes, jeans, or hats.

Where in an Insurance company database it can be a Contract Type.

This way we can know how a specific attribute of your indexed Documents should be queried for the best results.