Elasticsearch Partial Search

match and match_phrase do not work for partial searches. We can use wildcard, query_string or regexp to match a partial string.

For example, search gt3p in the content column.

wildcard

{
    "query": {
        "wildcard": { 
            "content" : "*gt3p*" 
        }
    }
}

query_string

{
    "query": {
        "query_string": {
            "default_field": "content",
            "query": "*gt3p*"
        }
    }
}

regexp

{
    "query": {
        "regexp": {
            "content": ".*gt3p.*"
        } 
    }
}