Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine based on Lucene. It allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and near real time. It is generally used as the underlying engine/technology that powers applications that have complex search features and requirements. A few sample use-cases including online web store catalog, collect and analyze logs for data mining, supervise and alerting system, business-intelligence needs.[04]
- Source Code
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch[02]
- Developer
- Country of Origin
- US
- Start Year
- 2004 [07]
- Former Name
- Compass
- Project Type
- Open Source
- Written in
- Java
- Supported Languages
- Java
- Derived From
- Elasticsearch
- Operating System
- All OS with Java VM
- License
- Apache v2
Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine based on Lucene. It allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and near real time. It is generally used as the underlying engine/technology that powers applications that have complex search features and requirements. A few sample use-cases including online web store catalog, collect and analyze logs for data mining, supervise and alerting system, business-intelligence needs.[04]
History[05][06][07]
Compass is the precursor to ElasticSearch, created by Shay Banon in 2004. In the release of its 3rd version, Banon rewrite big parts of Compass to "create a scalable search solution". A solution built from the ground up to be distributed and used a common interface, JSON over HTTP. Shay Banon released the first version of Elasticsearch in February 2010. Elasticsearch BV was founded in 2012 to provide commercial services and products around Elasticsearch and related software. In March 2015, the company ElasticSearch changed their name to Elastic.
Citations
7 sources- Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic elasticsearch.org
- GitHub - elastic/elasticsearch: Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine · GitHub github.com
- Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Reference elastic.co
- Get started with search | Elastic Docs elastic.co
- Elasticsearch Changes Name to Elastic to Reflect Wide Adoption Beyond Search | Elastic elastic.co
- The Future of Compass & Elasticsearch – the dude abides thedudeabides.com
- Elasticsearch - Wikipedia wikipedia.org