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  1. Introduction
  2. FAQ
  3. Getting started
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Downloading
    3. Installing
    4. Starting Linkurious
    5. Stopping Linkurious
    6. Configure Linkurious
    7. Release notes
    8. Graph DB Feature Map
  4. Troubleshooting
    1. Checking Linkurious status
    2. Reading the logs
    3. Getting support
    4. Managing licenses
    5. Vulnerabilities
  5. Importing graph data
    1. Neo4j
    2. Cosmos db
  6. Updating Linkurious
    1. Checking for updates
    2. Backing up your data
    3. Update procedure
  7. Configuring data-sources
    1. Neo4j
    2. Cosmos DB
    3. Alternative IDs
    4. Merging data-sources
    5. Advanced settings
  8. Search index
    1. Search Option Comparison
    2. Neo4j
    3. Neo4j to Elasticsearch
    4. Azure search
    5. Configuring Elasticsearch
    6. Using Elasticsearch on AWS
    7. Incremental Indexing
    8. Numerical/Date search
  9. User-data store
    1. Migrating to an external database
    2. Backing-up your store
  10. Web server
  11. Authentication
    1. Getting started
    2. LDAP / Active Directory
    3. SSO with Azure AD
    4. SSO with Google
    5. SSO with OpenID Connect
    6. SSO with SAML2 / ADFS
    7. Configuration
  12. Access control
    1. Managing users
    2. Managing groups
    3. Standard access-rights
    4. Property-key access-rights
  13. Guest mode
    1. Guest mode
  14. Data Schema
    1. Property types
    2. Hiding data
    3. Strict mode
  15. Alerts
    1. Configuration
  16. Visualizations appearance
    1. Default styles
    2. Default captions
    3. Default properties order
    4. Geographic tiles
  17. Audit trail
    1. Log format
  18. Plugins
 

Search index

Linkurious Enterprise allows you to search your graph using natural full-text search.

In order to offer the search feature out-of-the-box, Linkurious Enterprise ships with an embedded Elasticsearch server. This option allow for zero-configuration deployment in many cases.

Indexing your graph data

By default, Linkurious Enterprise uses Elasticsearch for search. This options requires Linkurious Enterprise to index your graph database, which technically means that Linkurious Enterprise will feed the whole content of the graph database to Elasticsearch to make it searchable. The time required to index the graph database increases with the size of the graph and this solution has limits in its scalability.

Indexation typically happens at speeds between 2000 and 20000 nodes or edges per second, depending on the number of properties for nodes and edges, and hardware performances.

Embedded Elasticsearch

By default, Linkurious Enterprise ships with an embedded Elasticsearch server (version 7.10.2). This server only listens for local connections on a non-default port (it binds to 127.0.0.1:9201), for security reasons and to avoid collisions with existing servers.

Use your own Elasticsearch

It is possible to use your own Elasticsearch cluster for performances reasons. Linkurious Enterprise supports Elasticsearch v1.x and v2.x. See details about Elasticsearch configuration options.

Search scalability and alternatives to Elasticsearch

Using Elasticsearch is convenient but may not fit cases where the graph database is big (more than a couple million nodes and edges) and is regularly modified from outside Linkurious Enterprise, which required to re-index the whole database.

In order to offer a scalable search feature on big graphs, Linkurious Enterprise offers alternatives search solution. See details about the different options.

Edit the search configuration

You can configure your search engines via the Web user interface or directly on the linkurious/data/config/production.json file.

Using the Web user interface

Using an administrator account, access the Admin > Data menu to edit the current data-source configuration:

Edit the search engine configuration to connect to your graph database:

Submit the changes by hitting the Save configuration button.

Using the configuration file

Edit the configuration file located at linkurious/data/config/production.json.

See details for each supported search connector.