Elasticsearch is the most popular data indexing tool as of today. It is because of its the following features:
- It is fast. Data is indexed at a real-time speed.
- It is scalable. It scales horizontally.
- It is flexible. It supports any data format, structured, semi-structured, or unstructured.
- It is distributed. If one node fails, the cluster is still available for business.
- It supports data search query in any language: Java, Python Ruby, C#, and so on.
- It has a Hadoop connector, which facilitates smooth communication between Elasticsearch and Hadoop.
- It supports robust data aggregation on huge datasets to find trends and patterns.
- The Elastic stack (Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana) and X-Pack offers out-of-the-box ...
