Elasticsearch is a scalable, distributed, document-oriented search engine built on Apache Lucene, offering near real-time data availability but lacking features like ACID compliance and transaction support. It provides a simple REST API for operations like searching, indexing, and updating documents, with capabilities for full-text search, geolocation, and data aggregations. Elasticsearch is particularly powerful for analyzing data through complex queries and aggregations, making it effective for various applications, especially in web data access layers.
Related topics: