This is the day that everyone in the Elasticsearch community has been waiting for: Elasticsearch v1.0 has been officially launched and is available to download and use right now! 1.0 makes massive leaps forwards, and proves that Elasticsearch really does go beyond 'just search'. Elasticsearch has been production-ready for a long time now, but I'm sure the 1.0 milestone will help see even mor…
Elasticsearch have just announced an amazing new product: Elasticsearch Marvel. Marvel is a monitoring and cluster management dashboard enabling you to understand and visualize the health and status of your Elasticsearch infrastructure.…
Elasticsearch v1.0 has nearly arrived. I recently wrote about the new Elasticsearch Aggregations feature, but that's not the only new addition to Elasticsearch v1.0: The Snapshot and Restore API is another useful new feature. It's available to preview in version 1.0-beta-2, so I've been having a play to see what we can expect from it.…
One of the most exciting features of the upcoming Elasticsearch v1.0 release is the new Aggregations framework. Elasticsearch Aggregations provide a massive jump in functionality over the existing Facets API, so I've spent a bit of time playing with the latest beta release, and have prepared this post so you know what to expect from this great new feature..…
This week I had the fantastic oppertunity to give a presentation at the London ElasticSearch User Group, held at London's SkillsMatter eXchange. In my talk, I discuss how DueDil have been harnessing the power of ElasticSearch to build a new way of searching, analysing and exploring business information. I cover the topics of importing via the bulk indexing API, and tricks and tips ar…
In my last article, I wrote about how to get started running Elasticsearch on EC2. I breifly mentioned the cluster state switching from yellow to green and recieved a comment asking exactly what this meant. I’ve prepared this short post discussing the yellow status, and the Elasticsearch Cluster Health API.…
Elasticsearch is a distributed search server offering powerful search functionality over schema-free documents in (near) real time. All of this functionality is exposed via a RESTful JSON API. It's built on top of Apache Lucene and like all great projects it's open source.…