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Prerequisites In order to run Elasticsearch, a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required on the machine. Elasticsearch requires Java 7 or higher and recommends Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_73. Install Oracle Java 8 sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update echo "or...

Prerequisites The Windows version of Elasticsearch can be obtained from this link: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch. The latest stable release is always at the top. As we are installing on Windows, we need the .ZIP archive. Click the link in the Downloads: section and save the file t...

Elasticsearch is accessed through a HTTP REST API, typically using the cURL library. The messages between the search server and the client (your or your application) are sent in the form of JSON strings. By default, Elasticsearch runs on port 9200. In the examples below, ?pretty is added to tell El...

By default, the full indexed document is returned as part of all searches. This is referred to as the source (_source field in the search hits). If we don’t want the entire source document returned, we have the ability to request only a few fields from within source to be returned, or we can set _so...

In order to run Elasticsearch, a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required on the machine. Elasticsearch requires Java 7 or higher and recommends Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_73. So, be sure if you have Java in your system. If not, then follow the procedure: # Install wget with yum yum -y install w...