Hello Elasticsearch! Elasticsearch is an open source,document-based search platform with fast searching capabilities.
Is the Elasticsearch a database or a search engine?
Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database with a document-based structure. It’s often used as a Search Engine. It also provides its own syntax and many tools to help your search be as flexible as possible.
What is Elastic Search?
Elasticsearch is a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. Elasticsearch is built on Apache Lucene and was first released in 2010 by Elasticsearch N.V. (now known as Elastic).
What is Elasticsearch in AWS?
AWS Elasticsearch is a service which makes it easy to deploy and use Elasticsearch in the cloud, by using it in AWS it will be easier to cluster and scale, it can be used also for monitoring your nodes and have multiple configuration.
When to use Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is a perfect choice for e-commerce applications, recommendation engines, and analysis of time-series data (logs, metrics, etc.) and geospatial information. Also, you can use Elasticsearch to create autocomplete functionality and contextual suggesters, to analyze linguistic content, and to build anomaly detection features.
How does Elastic Search work?
Elastic Search is an analytics and full-text search engine. It is often used to enabling search functionality in the application. E.g. You have an application which stores blog posts in the title, description, metadata, tags. You want to search some text inputted in many columns. this is called text searching.