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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 additional script plugins


ElasticSearch provides native scripting (a Java code compiled in JAR) and MVEL, but a lot of interesting languages are available, such as JavaScript and Python. These languages must be installed as plugins.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

For installing a JavaScript language support for Elasticsearch, we will perform the following steps:

  1. From the command line, simply call the following command:

    bin/plugin --install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-lang-javascript/1.4.0
    
  2. It will fire as results:

    -> Installing elasticsearch/elasticsearch-lang-javascript/1.4.0...
    Trying http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-lang-javascript/elasticsearch-lang-javascript-1.4.0.zip...
    Downloading ....DONE
    Installed lang-javascript
    

    If the installation is successful, the output will end with Installed; otherwise, an error is returned.

  3. For installing a Python language support for Elasticsearch, just call the following command...

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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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