Elastic Search limit results

Question

In MySQL I can do something like:

  SELECT id FROM table WHERE field = \'foo\' LIMIT 5

If the table has 10,000 rows, then this query is way

Answer 1

You are correct the query is being ran entirely. Queries by default return data sorted by score, so your query is going to score each document. The docs state that the fuzzy query isn't going to scale well, so might want to consider other queries.

A limit filter might give you similar behavior to what your looking for.

A limit filter limits the number of documents (per shard) to execute on

To replicate mysql field='foo' try using a term filter. You should use filters when you don't care about scoring, they are faster and cache-able.