Introducing Data Science

Appendix A. Setting up Elasticsearch

In this appendix, we’ll cover installing and setting up the Elasticsearch database used in Chapters 6 and 7. Instructions for both Linux and Windows installations are included. Note that if you get into trouble or want further information on Elasticsearch, it has pretty decent documentation you can find located at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.4/setup.html.

Note

Elasticsearch is dependent on Java, so we’ll cover how to install that as well.

A.1. Linux installation

First check to see if you have Java already installed on your machine.

1.  You can check your Java version in a console window with java –version. If Java is installed, you’ll see a response like ...