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Published inDec 2013
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Alberto Paro
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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Installing a plugin


One of the main features of ElasticSearch is the possibility to extend it with plugins. Plugins extend ElasticSearch features and functionalities in several ways. There are two kinds of plugins:

  • Site plugins: These are used to serve static contents in their entry points. They are mainly used to create management application: monitoring and administration of a cluster.

  • Binary plugins: These are jar files that contain application code. They are used for:

    • Rivers (plugins that allow importing data from DBMS or other sources)

    • ScriptEngine (JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Ruby)

    • Custom analyzers and tokenizers

    • REST entry points

    • Supporting new protocols (Thrift, memcache, and so on)

    • Supporting new storages (Hadoop)

Getting ready

You need an installed working ElasticSearch server.

How to do it...

ElasticSearch provides a script for automatically downloading and installing plugins in bin/directory, called plugin.

The steps required to install a plugin are:

  1. Call the plugin install the ElasticSearch...

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Published in: Dec 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782166627

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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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