Elasticsearch
A distributed search and analytics engine on Lucene, the base of log analytics and full-text search. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Elastic
- Created by
- Shay Banon
- First release
- 2010
- License
- AGPL-3.0, SSPL-1.0, Elastic License 2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch
- Written in
- Java
- Data model
- Search, Document, Vector
- Storage layout
- Column-oriented
- Workload
- Search
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- Query DSL, ES|QL
- ACID transactions
- No
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Sharding
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (High throughput indexing); Read: fast (Fast full-text and aggregation queries); Update: slow (An update rewrites the whole document); Delete: moderate (Marked deleted, removed on segment merge)