Chapter 1.  Revisiting Elasticsearch and the Changes

Welcome to Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x, Third Edition. Elasticsearch has progressed rapidly from version 1.x, released in 2014, to version 5.x, released in 2016. During the two-and-a-half-year period since 1.0.0, adoption has skyrocketed, and both vendors and the community have committed bug-fixes, interoperability enhancements, and rich feature upgrades to ensure Elasticsearch remains the most popular NoSQL storage, indexing, and search utility for both structured and unstructured documents, as well as gaining popularity as a log analysis tool as part of the Elastic Stack.

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