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+ElasticSearch Update By Query Plugin
+====================================
+
+The update by query API allows all documents that with the query to be updated with a script.
+This is experimental.
+
+This plugin is an adaptation of elasticsearch/elasticsearch#2230.
+
+Installation
+-----------
+
+Simply run at the root of your ElasticSearch v0.20.2+ installation:
+
+    bin/plugin -install com.yakaz.elasticsearch.plugins/elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery/1.0.0
+
+This will download the plugin from the Central Maven Repository.
+
+For older versions of ElasticSearch, you can still use the longer:
+
+    bin/plugin -url http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/yakaz/elasticsearch/plugins/elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery/1.0.0/elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery-1.0.0.zip install elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery
+
+In order to declare this plugin as a dependency, add the following to your `pom.xml`:
+
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.yakaz.elasticsearch.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>elasticsearch-action-updatebyquery/artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+
+Version matrix:
+
+    ----------------------------------------------------
+    | Update By Query Action Plugin | ElasticSearch    |
+    ----------------------------------------------------
+    | master                        | 0.20.0 -> master |
+    ----------------------------------------------------
+    | 1.0.0                         | 0.20.0 -> master |
+    ----------------------------------------------------
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The update by query API allows all documents that with the query to be updated with a script.
+This feature is experimental.
+
+The update by query works a bit different than the delete by query.
+The update by query api translates the documents that match into bulk index / delete requests.
+After the bulk limit has been reached, the bulk requests created thus far will be executed.
+After the bulk requests have been executed the next batch of requests will be prepared and executed.
+This behavior continues until all documents that matched the query have been processed.
+The bulk size can be configured with the `action.updatebyquery.bulk_size` option in the elasticsearch configuration.
+For example: `action.updatebyquery.bulk_size=2500`
+
+Example usage
+-------------
+
+Index an example document:
+
+    curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1' -d '
+    {
+        "text" : {
+            "message" : "you know for search"
+        },
+        "likes": 0
+    }'
+
+Execute the following update by query command:
+
+    curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/twitter/_update_by_query' -d '
+    {
+        "query" : {
+            "term" : {
+                "message" : "you"
+            }
+        },
+        "script" : "ctx._source.likes += 1"
+    }'
+
+This will yield the following response:
+
+    {
+      "ok" : true,
+      "took" : 9,
+      "total" : 1,
+      "updated" : 1,
+      "indices" : [ {
+        "twitter" : { }
+      } ]
+    }
+
+By default no bulk item responses are included in the response.
+If there are bulk item responses included in the response, the bulk response items are grouped by index and shard.
+This can be controlled by the `response` option.
+
+Options:
+--------
+
+Additional general options in request body:
+
+* `lang`: The script language.
+* `params`: The script parameters.
+
+### Query string options:
+
+* `replication`: The replication type for the delete/index operation (sync or async).
+* `consistency`: The write consistency of the index/delete operation.
+* `response`: What bulk response items to include into the update by query response.
+  This can be set to the following: `none`, `failed` and `all`.
+  Defaults to `none`.
+  Warning: `all` can result in out of memory errors when the query results in many hits.
+* `routing`: Sets the routing that will be used to route the document to the relevant shard.
+* `timeout`: Timeout waiting for a shard to become available.