elastic/elasticsearch
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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= Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine, scalable data store and vector database optimized for speed and relevance on production-scale workloads. Elasticsearch is the foundation of Elastic's open Stack platform. Search in near real-time over massive datasets, perform vector searches, integrate with generative AI applications, and much more. Use cases enabled by Elasticsearch include: \... and more! To learn more about Elasticsearch's features and capabilities, see our https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch[product page]. To access information on https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/categories/ml-research[machine learning innovations] and the latest https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/categories/lucene[Lucene contributions from Elastic], more information can be found in https://www.elastic.co/search-labs[Search Labs]. [[get-started]] == Get started The simplest way to set up Elasticsearch is to create a managed deployment with https://www.elastic.co/cloud/as-a-service[Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud]. If you prefer to install and manage Elasticsearch yourself, you can download the latest version from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch[elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch]. === Run Elasticsearch locally //// IMPORTANT: This content is replicated in the Elasticsearch repo. See run-elasticsearch-locally.asciidoc.…
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- [WARNING]
- This setup is intended for local development and testing only.
- [source,sh]
- curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh
- [CAUTION]
- This setup is for local testing only. HTTPS is disabled, and Basic authentication is used for Elasti
- [source,sh]
- curl $ESLOCALURL -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${ESLOCALAPIKEY}"
- [source,sh]
- export ESLOCALPASSWORD
- [source,sh]
- -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
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What this repository does
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Repository facts
- Owner
- elastic
- Primary language
- Java
- Stars
- 78,022
- Forks
- 26,092
- Open issues + pull requests
- 6,110
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2010-02-08T13:20:56.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-28T11:50:57.000Z
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Owner-supplied topics: elasticsearch, java, search-engine
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