Question

When storing some documents, it should store the nonexistent and ignore the rest (should this be done at application level, maybe checking if document’s id already exists, etc.?)

Answer 1

Here is what is stated in documentation:

Operation Type

The index operation also accepts an op_type that can be used to force a create operation, allowing for “put-if-absent” behavior. When create is used, the index operation will fail if a document by that id already exists in the index.

Here is an example of using the op_type parameter:

$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?op_type=create' -d '{
    "user" : "kimchy",
    "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message" : "trying out Elastic Search"
}'

Another option to specify create is to use the following uri:

$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1/_create' -d '{
    "user" : "kimchy",
    "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
    "message" : "trying out Elastic Search"
}'