Elasticsearch difference between MUST and SHOULD bool query

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must means: The clause (query) must appear in matching documents. These clauses must match, like logical AND.

should means: At least one of these clauses must match, like logical OR.

Basically they are used like logical operators AND and OR. See this.

Now in a bool query:

must means: Clauses that must match for the document to be included.

should means: If these clauses match, they increase the _score; otherwise, they have no effect. They are simply used to refine the relevance score for each document.

Yes you can use multiple filters inside must.

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