Mysteriously wrong values of numerical fields in ElasticSearch - elasticsearch

Question

I've spent the last 2 days investigating this mind-bending issue:I have an index with custom mappings on which I perform some aggregations. The problem is that in the results of the aggregation on numerical fields,it returns values that do not appear in the database from which the data was imported, even though the number of results is the same.
I found a similar issue here where the problem was inconsistent mapping of a field across an index, but in my case it is mapped as the same type. The problem happens with the fields: award.value.amount, award.value.x_amountEur, tender.value.x_amountEur as far as I have checked.This is my current mapping as stated by curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/documents/_mappings?pretty&human'
(the part that contains the target fields):
{
"documents" : {
"mappings" : {
"document" : {
"properties" : {
"additionalIdentifiers" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"award" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"contract_number" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"date" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"x_day" : {
"type" : "integer"
},
"x_month" : {
"type" : "integer"
},
"x_year" : {
"type" : "integer"
}
}
},
"description" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"initialValue" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"amount" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"currency" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_vat" : {
"type" : "float"
}
}
},
"minValue" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"amount" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_amountEur" : {
"type" : "float"
}
}
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"value" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"amount" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"currency" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_amountEur" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_vat" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_vatbool" : {
"type" : "boolean"
}
}
},
"x_initialValue" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"x_amountEur" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_vatbool" : {
"type" : "boolean"
}
}
}
}
},
"awardCriteria" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"contract_number" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"document_id" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"numberOfTenderers" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"procurementMethod" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"procuring_entity" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"address" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"country" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"countryName" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"email" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"locality" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"postalCode" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"streetAddress" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"telephone" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_url" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_slug" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
}
}
},
"suppliers" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"address" : {
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"email" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"locality" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"postalCode" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"streetAddress" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"telephone" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_url" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_slug" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
}
}
},
"tender" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"value" : {
"type" : "nested",
"properties" : {
"_id" : {
"properties" : {
"$oid" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"amount" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"currency" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"x_amountEur" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_vat" : {
"type" : "float"
},
"x_vatbool" : {
"type" : "boolean"
}
}
}
}
}
This is the aggregation I am using in order to get the values of contracts between each pair of supplier - procuring_entity:
Document.es.search({
"search_type": "count" ,
"body":{
"aggregations": {
"entities":{
"nested": {
"path": "procuring_entity"
},
"aggs": {
"procuring_entity_names": {
"terms": {
"field": "procuring_entity.x_slug",
"size": 0
},
"aggs": {
"suppliers": {
"nested": {
"path": "suppliers"
},
"aggs": {
"suppliers_names": {
"terms":{
"field": "suppliers.x_slug",
"size": 0
},
"aggs": {
"awards": {
"nested": {
"path": "award.value"
},
"aggs": {
"award_amounts": {
"terms":{
"field": "award.value.x_amountEur",
"size": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}})
The result with type float is :
{"entities"=>
{"doc_count"=>24300,
"procuring_entity_names"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>"vsia-bernu-kliniska-universitates-slimnica",
"doc_count"=>1360,
"suppliers"=>
{"doc_count"=>1360,
"suppliers_names"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>"recipe-plus-as",
"doc_count"=>388,
"awards"=>
{"doc_count"=>388,
"awards"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>3679.086669921875, "doc_count"=>373},
{"key"=>0.0, "doc_count"=>12},
{"key"=>73610.3203125, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>244000.0, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>342348.9375, "doc_count"=>1}]}}}
The problem is that in MongoDB the same query returns 388 documents that all have award.value.x_amountEur = 3679.08661250056 , as presented by Mongoid query:
Document.where(:"procuring_entity.x_slug" => "vsia-bernu-kliniska-universitates-slimnica")
.keep_if{|doc| doc.suppliers.first.x_slug == "recipe-plus-as"}
.map{|doc| doc.award.value.x_amountEur}.uniq
=>[3679.08661250056]
A query directly into MongoDB returns the same.
I have also tried to map the targeted fields as double, which gave the same result and as long which returned the following (even more incorrect result):
{"entities"=>
{"doc_count"=>24300,
"procuring_entity_names"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>"vsia-bernu-kliniska-universitates-slimnica",
"doc_count"=>1360,
"suppliers"=>
{"doc_count"=>1360,
"suppliers_names"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>"recipe-plus-as",
"doc_count"=>388,
"awards"=>
{"doc_count"=>388,
"awards"=>
{"doc_count_error_upper_bound"=>0,
"sum_other_doc_count"=>0,
"buckets"=>
[{"key"=>3679, "doc_count"=>371},
{"key"=>0, "doc_count"=>12},
{"key"=>44300, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>80472, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>331636, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>342348, "doc_count"=>1},
{"key"=>1658805, "doc_count"=>1}]}}}
I'm using Elasticsearch 2.0, mongoid 5.0.1 and mongoid-elasticsearch for indexing. I can't think of anything else to do so any suggestion is welcomed and appreciated.

Answer 1

I tried to test your scenario with ES 2.0 and there is something that I'm missing. I cannot make it create buckets for the award.value.x_amountEur unless I use a reverse_nested aggregation to "get out" from one nested path and into another.
So, instead of the awards aggregation that you have I'm using the same aggregation but "wrapped" in a reverse_nested aggregation:
"aggs": {
"getting_back": {
"reverse_nested": {},
"aggs": {
"awards": {
"nested": {
"path": "award.value"
},
"aggs": {
"award_amounts": {
"terms": {
"field": "award.value.x_amountEur"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
And for this one I am seeing something ok.
Later edit: following mine and more general #Val's suggestion, the complete solution was to use reverse_nested on both awards and suppliers aggregations.