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()

kalenjordan/clean-elastic-search