[heipei]

For my standard use-cases using the query_string query is "good enough", it is the only thing I regularly implement and expose to users. That + some pre-defined aggregations gets you very far. Query String Query can do things like boolean operations (AND, OR, NOT), phrase search, fuzzy search, range search, date math, regex search, boosting: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...