Overview of Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open-source, highly scalable search and analytics engine written in Java. The engine is built ontop of Apache Lucene Library and has an advanced distributed model and consistent API interface. Elasticsearch allows you to store, search, and analyze huge volumes of data quickly and in near real-time with answers provided in milliseconds. Making it perfect for building full text search, analytics store, auto completer, spell checker, and alerting engines.

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