Elasticsearch 有一個功能叫聚合（aggregations），允許我們基於資料生成一些精細的分析結果。聚合與 SQL 中的
GROUP BY 類似但更強大。

首先看一下我當前megacorp索引下employeetype中的資料,執行如下語句:
語句1:

GET /megacorp/employee/_search
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}

結果:

{
  "took": 0,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful
 
": 5,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 3,
    "max_score": 1,
    "hits": [
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "2",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "Jane",
          "last_name": "Smith",
          "age": 32
 
,
          "about": "I like to collect rock albums",
          "interests": [
            "music"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "1",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "John",
          "last_name
 
": "Smith",
          "age": 25,
          "about": "I love to go rock climbing",
          "interests": [
            "sports",
            "music"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "3",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "Douglas",
          "last_name": "Fir",
          "age": 35,
          "about": "I like to build cabinets",
          "interests": [
            "forestry"
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

正文：
舉個例子，基於上述資料探勘出僱員中最受歡迎的興趣愛好：
語句2：

GET /megacorp/employee/_search
{
  "aggs": {
    "all_interests": {
      "terms": { "field": "interests" }
    }
  }
}

查詢結果如下:

{
   ...
   "hits": { ... },
   "aggregations": {
      "all_interests": {
         "buckets": [
            {
               "key":       "music",
               "doc_count": 2
            },
            {
               "key":       "forestry",
               "doc_count": 1
            },
            {
               "key":       "sports",
               "doc_count": 1
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}

結論:統計所有實體的interests的具體專案和每個專案的個數。
需要說明的是在執行語句2之前需要先執行一段語句(至於why?可以參考我的另一篇博文)：

PUT megacorp/_mapping/employee/
{
  "properties": {
    "interests": { 
      "type":     "text",
      "fielddata": true
    }
  }
}

該語句的目的是使得megacorp索引下employee 型別中的interests欄位可以使用聚合函式聚合(**all_**interests)，同理其他欄位在使用聚合函式時也必須執行如上語句，比如對last_name想使用聚合函式，就必須執行如下語句:

PUT megacorp/_mapping/employee/
{
  "properties": {
    "last_name": { 
      "type":     "text",
      "fielddata": true
    }
  }
}

聚合函式有很多種，比如還有avg_interests。
另外如果想知道姓為Smith 的僱員中最受歡迎的興趣愛好，可以直接新增適當的查詢來組合查詢：

GET /megacorp/employee/_search
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "last_name": "smith"
    }
  },
  "aggs": {
    "all_interests": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "interests"
      }
    }
  }
}

結果:

{
  "took": 1,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful": 5,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 2,
    "max_score": 0.2876821,
    "hits": [
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "2",
        "_score": 0.2876821,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "Jane",
          "last_name": "Smith",
          "age": 32,
          "about": "I like to collect rock albums",
          "interests": [
            "music"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "1",
        "_score": 0.2876821,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "John",
          "last_name": "Smith",
          "age": 25,
          "about": "I love to go rock climbing",
          "interests": [
            "sports",
            "music"
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "aggregations": {
    "all_interests": {
      "doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
      "sum_other_doc_count": 0,
      "buckets": [
        {
          "key": "music",
          "doc_count": 2
        },
        {
          "key": "sports",
          "doc_count": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

聚合還支援分級彙總 。比如，查詢特定興趣愛好員工的平均年齡：

GET /megacorp/employee/_search
{
    "aggs" : {
        "all_interests" : {
            "terms" : { "field" : "interests" },
            "aggs" : {
                "avg_age" : {
                    "avg" : { "field" : "age" }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

結果:

{
  "took": 1,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful": 5,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 3,
    "max_score": 1,
    "hits": [
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "2",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "Jane",
          "last_name": "Smith",
          "age": 32,
          "about": "I like to collect rock albums",
          "interests": [
            "music"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "1",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "John",
          "last_name": "Smith",
          "age": 25,
          "about": "I love to go rock climbing",
          "interests": [
            "sports",
            "music"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "_index": "megacorp",
        "_type": "employee",
        "_id": "3",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "first_name": "Douglas",
          "last_name": "Fir",
          "age": 35,
          "about": "I like to build cabinets",
          "interests": [
            "forestry"
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "aggregations": {
    "all_interests": {
      "doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
      "sum_other_doc_count": 0,
      "buckets": [
        {
          "key": "music",
          "doc_count": 2,
          "avg_age": {
            "value": 28.5
          }
        },
        {
          "key": "forestry",
          "doc_count": 1,
          "avg_age": {
            "value": 35
          }
        },
        {
          "key": "sports",
          "doc_count": 1,
          "avg_age": {
            "value": 25
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

上面的語句的意思是統計具體的每種興趣愛好喜歡的人數以及這些人的平均年齡。