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Elasticsearch Installation and Configuration
March 25, 2013
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Elasticsearch is …
- Open Source (Apache 2)
- Distributed
- RESTful
- Search Engine built on top of Apache Lucene.
It is …..
- Very fast
- Schema Free
- JSON over HTTP
- Scale to hundred and real time search.
 Installation
Elasticsearch is based on java, so we need to install JAVA>6
yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
java -version
Download source from
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/
elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.20.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf elasticsearch-0.20.5.tar.gz
cp -r elasticsearch-0.20.5.tar.gz elasticsearch
cd elasticsearch
Add elastic home path in “.bash_profile”
export $ES_HOME=/home/elasticsearch
Start/Run Elasticsearch
cd elasticsearch
bin/elasticsearch -f
Is it started?
You can confirm it by browsing URL like - http://127.0.0.1:9200/, it will shows something like
{
"ok" : true,
"status" : 200,
"name" : "Neville, Kate",
"version" : {
"number" : "0.20.5",
"snapshot_build" : false
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
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