Preface

Elasticsearch is a distributed search server similar to Apache Solr with a focus on large datasets, schemaless setup, and high availability. Utilizing the Apache Lucene library (also used in Apache Solr), Elasticsearch enables powerful full-text searches, autocomplete, the "morelikethis" search, multilingual functionality, as well as an extensive search query DSL.

Elasticsearch's schemafree architecture provides developers with built-in flexibility as well as ease of setup. This architecture allows Elasticsearch to index and search unstructured content, making it perfectly suited for both small projects and large big data warehouses—even with petabytes of unstructured data.

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