Term-level queries

Term-level queries search an index for documents that contain an exact search term. Documents returned by a term-level query are not sorted by their relevance scores.

When working with text data, use term-level queries for fields mapped as keyword only.

Term-level queries are not suited for searching analyzed text fields. To return analyzed fields, use a full-text query.

Term-level query types

The following table lists all term-level query types.

Query typeDescription
termSearches for documents containing an exact term in a specific field.
termsSearches for documents containing one or more terms in a specific field.
terms_setSearches for documents that match a minimum number of terms in a specific field.
idsSearches for documents by document ID.
rangeSearches for documents with field values in a specific range.
prefixSearches for documents containing terms that begin with a specific prefix.
existsSearches for documents with any indexed value in a specific field.
fuzzySearches for documents containing terms that are similar to the search term within the maximum allowed Damerau–Levenshtein distance. The Damerau–Levenshtein distance measures the number of one-character changes needed to change one term to another term.
wildcardSearches for documents containing terms that match a wildcard pattern.
regexpSearches for documents containing terms that match a regular expression.