What is Term queries and how boost parameter affect score and documents retrieved

Term queries:  In Elasticsearch term query is used when we want to retrieve documents with exact match. In another words, the exact term needs to be found in inverted index for indexed documents. Below is sample term queries which retrieves all document from index customers - if name (first/last) contains "gates".

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/customers/_search?pretty' -d'
{
    "query" : {
        "term" : { "name" : "gates" }
    }
}
' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

Consider another example of term query with boolean compound queries. Below query retrieves all documents where state name contains - either avenue or court (Remember should construct ?). Below response shows that "court" got priority over "avenue" in score computation so all documents with "court" appears first.

➜  Desktop curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/customers/_search?pretty' -d'
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "term": {
            "street": {
              "value": "avenue"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "term": {
            "street": {
              "value": "court"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "size": 2,
  "_source" :"st*"
}
' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
{
  "took" : 3,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 333,
    "max_score" : 2.2525747,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : "customers",
        "_type" : "vendors",
        "_id" : "BH_g6mABB3_D7Pc85hJw",
        "_score" : 2.2525747,
        "_source" : {
          "street" : "980 Seigel Court",
          "state" : "Hawaii, 9974"
        }
      },
      {
        "_index" : "customers",
        "_type" : "vendors",
        "_id" : "Bn_g6mABB3_D7Pc85hJw",
        "_score" : 2.2525747,
        "_source" : {
          "street" : "323 Aurelia Court",
          "state" : "Maine, 8213"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

How to enforce term query so that "avenue" gets priority over "court" so that all documents with "avenue" appears first with higher score - Using Boost parameter

Now we use boost parameter and update above query so that "avenue" gets priority over "court".

➜  Desktop curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/customers/_search?pretty' -d'
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "term": {
            "street": {
              "value": "avenue",
              "boost": 2.0
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "term": {
            "street": {
              "value": "court"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "size": 2,
  "_source" :"st*"
}
' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
{
  "took" : 3,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 333,
    "max_score" : 3.3973382,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : "customers",
        "_type" : "vendors",
        "_id" : "tX_g6mABB3_D7Pc85hFv",
        "_score" : 3.3973382,
        "_source" : {
          "street" : "438 Gotham Avenue",
          "state" : "Indiana, 7577"
        }
      },
      {
        "_index" : "customers",
        "_type" : "vendors",
        "_id" : "vn_g6mABB3_D7Pc85hFv",
        "_score" : 3.3973382,
        "_source" : {
          "street" : "100 Tapscott Avenue",
          "state" : "Palau, 2140"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Note:-
- Total number of results is same as above query without boost parameter.
- Document with "Avenue" got boost of 2.0 and its score improved as compare to last results.

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