Compressing is awesome, making something smaller than the original size sounds like magic but it is possible. We know it from our WinRar, 7Zip or other tools. Even Elasticsearch has a property to compress the data which will be tossed between the nodes and the clients, this could be very useful to reduce network latency when handling huge responses from Elasticsearch. Within this article we will cover the following topics:
- Enable HTTP/TCP compression
- Handling compressed responses
- Elasticsearch 7.7 and below
- Elasticsearch 7.8 and upwards
- Future Elasticsearch release 7.9 and 8.0
Most of us are already familiar with Elasticsearch from Elastic when working with application logs, but a-lot of people never heard about. Below is a short summary: