#Career/AWSElasticsearch

Elasticsearch

  • Search engine based on Lucene
  • Distributed (Scalable)
  • Multitenant-capable (one instance serving multiple clients/tenants simultaneously)
  • Full-text search engine
  • HTTP web interface
  • JSON documents
  • Most popular enterprise search engine
  • near real-time search
  • auto rebalancing/routing

Works alongside Logstash (data-collection + log-parsing engine) and Kibana (analytics + visualisation) to make Elastic Stack

AWS Elasticsearch

  • Auto detects and replaces failed nodes
  • easily scale cluster via single API call or console

Elasticsearch - Wikipedia