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Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Setting up a node


Elasticsearch allows customizing several parameters in an installation. In this recipe, we'll see the most used ones to define where to store our data and to improve the overall performances.

Getting ready

You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a simple text editor to change configuration files.

How to do it...

The steps required for setting up a simple node are as follows:

  • Open config/elasticsearch.yml with an editor of your choice.

  • Setup the directories that store your server data.

  • For Linux or Mac OS X type the following command:

        path.conf: /opt/data/es/conf
        path.data: /opt/data/es/data1,/opt2/data/data2
        path.work: /opt/data/work 
        path.logs: /opt/data/logs 
        path.plugins: /opt/data/plugins 
  • For Windows type the following command:

        path.conf: c:\Elasticsearch\conf 
        path.data: c:\Elasticsearch\data 
        path.work: c:\Elasticsearch\work 
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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