Elasticsearch match query on each separate value in a multi value field without nested - elasticsearch

Question

For a multi-valued field, like this:
PUT match_test
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"companies": {
"type": "text"
}
}
}
}
POST match_test/_doc/1
{
"companies": ["bank of canada", "japan games and movies", "microsoft canada"]
}
This query returns the document we inserted above:
GET match_test/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"companies": {
"query": "canada games",
"operator": "and"
}
}
}
}
Is there any way to tell elastic to match to each item in the list separately?
I want the doc to match "bank of", "of America", "bank", "games", "Canada", but not "Microsoft games"
I do not want to use nested documents or scripts

Answer 1

If you want to find words that are far apart from each other but are still on the same array index , then you can use position_increment_gap.
When creating a mapping, set position_increment_gap of the field to 100. Elasticsearch will automatically index array data at each position with +100 in position for the data at the next index.
Then write a match_phrase query with slop 99.
PUT match_test
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"companies": {
"type": "text",
"position_increment_gap": 100
}
}
}
}
GET match_test/_search
{
"query": {
"match_phrase": {
"companies": {
"query": "japan movies",
"slop":99
}
}
}
}
Read more about it here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/position-increment-gap.html