Elasticsearch is a source-available search engine developed by Elastic. It is based on Apache Lucene and provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. It offers client libraries across multiple programming languages including Java, C#, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
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SignificanceA distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene, central to modern log and full-text search infrastructure. 1 Sources
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Elasticsearch is a source-available search engine developed by Elastic. It is based on Apache Lucene and provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
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