Monday, 26 October 2015

ElasticSearch Overview & Setup

Elasticsearch:

Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene.

         Apache Lucene is a open source information retrieval software library. It is suitable for any application that requires full text indexing and searching capability.

Elasticsearch is a search engine tool/platform which allows us to save the documents to be search in certain format and provides APIs to do full text search capabilities. In the recent times, because of its features like Open Source, Scalability, ease of use, it has become very popular among developer community. Elasticsearch provides a distributed, multinant-capable full text search engine with RESTFul web interface and scheme free JSON documents. 

Install Elasticsearch on Windows:

Install Elastic Search is every easy, here are the steps for the same:
1. Download latest Elasticsearch zip file from this location.
2. Navigate to bin folder and double click on elasticsearch.bat file or navigate through command     prompt:
                
 
    The above command will start the elasticsearch service.

Note: The above command does not give any GUI, we need to install that by executing the below command :

 Now we can hit http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/ to see the Elasticsearch GUI.




Regards,
Vidya Bhushan

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