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Daniel Li
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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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Introduction to Elasticsearch


So, what is Elasticsearch? First and foremost, Elasticsearch should not be viewed as a single, one-dimensional tool. Rather, it's a suite of tools that consists of a distributed database, a full-text search engine, and also an analytics engine. We will focus on the "database" part in this chapter, dealing with the "distributed" and "full-text search" parts later.

At its core, Elasticsearch is a high-level abstraction layer for Apache Lucene, a full-text search engine. Lucene is arguably the most powerful full-text search engine around; it is used by Apache Solr, another search platform similar to Elasticsearch. However, Lucene is very complex and the barrier to entry is high; thus Elasticsearch abstracts that complexity away into a RESTful API.

 

Instead of using Java to interact with Lucene directly, we can instead send HTTP requests to the API. Furthermore, Elasticsearch also provides many language-specific clients that abstract the API further into nicely-packaged...

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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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