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Beginning Elastic Stack
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Beginning Elastic Stack

by Vishal Sharma
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
194 pages
4h 7m
English
Apress
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© Vishal Sharma 2016

Vishal Sharma, Beginning Elastic Stack, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1694-1_2

2. Getting Started with Elasticsearch

Vishal Sharma1 

(1)New Delhi, Delhi, India

Now that we’ve installed Logstash, we will move forward and install and configure Elasticsearch. Before we do this, let me explain first a little bit more about Elasticsearch.

What Is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch, developed by Shay Banon, is written in Java. It is open source and based on Apache Lucene, under an Apache license.

So what does Elasticsearch really do? Elasticsearch is a scalable full-text search and analytics engine. It works with large data and lets you store and perform searches on it. Because Elasticsearch is based on Apache Lucene, it does incremental indexing, which ...

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