What is Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. It's the heart of the Elastic Stack and provides near real-time search and analytics for all types of data.
Why We Use Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch delivers powerful search at scale:
- Full-Text Search: Advanced text analysis, relevance scoring, and fuzzy matching
- Real-Time: Near-instant indexing and search results
- Scalability: Horizontal scaling across clusters of nodes
- Analytics: Aggregations for complex data analysis and visualization
- Schema Flexibility: Dynamic mapping adapts to your data structure
Our Elasticsearch Expertise
We implement Elasticsearch for diverse use cases:
- Search Solutions: Product search, site search, and autocomplete
- Log Analytics: Centralized logging with the ELK stack
- Metrics & APM: Application performance monitoring and metrics
- Index Design: Mapping optimization, sharding strategies, and aliases
- Query Tuning: Relevance tuning, query optimization, and caching
When to Choose Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch excels for:
- Full-text search across large document collections
- Log aggregation and analysis
- Real-time analytics dashboards
- Geospatial search applications
- Applications requiring fast, flexible queries
