Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed to store, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and in near real time. It offers powerful full-text search capabilities, complex aggregations, and provides a scalable foundation for various data-driven…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- Elasticsearch was created to solve the problem of providing scalable, near real-time full-text search and analytical capabilities on large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, which traditional relational databases struggled to deliver efficiently.
- Platforms
- Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), macOS, Windows, Docker
Related technologies
Notable users
- Netflix
- Adobe
- Wikipedia
- NASA
- Uber
- Goldman Sachs