Overview
Elastic Stack Serverless
The SQL search API accepts SQL in a JSON document, executes it, and returns the results. For example:
POST /_sql?format=txt {
"query": "SELECT * FROM library ORDER BY page_count DESC LIMIT 5"
}
Which returns:
author | name | page_count | release_date
-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------------
Peter F. Hamilton|Pandora's Star |768 |2004-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Vernor Vinge |A Fire Upon the Deep|613 |1992-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
Frank Herbert |Dune |604 |1965-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space |585 |2000-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
James S.A. Corey |Leviathan Wakes |561 |2011-06-02T00:00:00.000Z