Elastic Search for Magento

Speed up that slow global admin search.

Before

After

Installation via composer

1. Install elasticsearch

Pretty easy to install, if you already have java installed, as I did in my local.

wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.5.zip
unzip elasticsearch-0.90.5.zip
elasticsearch-0.90.5/bin/elasticsearch -f

Boom - it's installed and running now.

2. Install elastic search module

"require": {
    "kalenjordan/elastic-search": "dev-master",
    "ruflin/elastica": "dev-master"
}

3. Speed up the onKeyPress timeout

This will speed up the rate at which the autocomplete fires.

# app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/page/header.phtml

new Ajax.Autocompleter(
    'global_search',
    'global_search_autocomplete',
    '<?php echo $this->getUrl('adminhtml/index/globalSearch') ?>',
    {
        paramName:"query",
        minChars:2,
        indicator:"global_search_indicator",
        updateElement:getSelectionId,
        evalJSON:'force',
        **frequency: 0.01**
    }
);

To Do

This is just in early development.

• Might need a more bulletproof authentication scheme, but bootstrapping Magento isn't an option for performance reasons.

• Some people will probably want support for URL keys in the autocomplete results

• Use bulk API to insert documents when doing reindexAll()