Cloud Computing

& Big Data

FIB-UPC Master MEI

ElasticSearch

Nacho ValenciaDecember-2012

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Introduction

•Cloud Computing

•Big Data

•Apache Lucene

•REST

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The problem

•Shay Banon

•Engine Framework

•Compass Project

SCALABILITY??

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What is ElasticSearch?

•Distributed

•RESTful

•Free/open source SEARCH SERVER

•Based on Apache Lucene

•Developed in Java

•By Shay Banon

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What is ElasticSearch for?

•Search all kind of documents

•Scalable search solution

•Near real-time search

•Support for multitenancy

•“ElasticSearch is distributed, which means that indices can be

divided into shards and each shard can have zero or more replicas. Each node hosts one or more shards, and acts as a coordinator to delegate operations to the correct shard(s). Rebalancing and routing are done automatically”

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Big Data?

• Search a word

on a book

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How it works?

•Simple

•Fast

•Linux or Mac environment

•Perfect for try at Amazon AWS EC2 :)

•Tries to make all features available through JSON and JAVA API

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Demo

•Download and Start elasticsearch

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Demo

•Check it’s running OK

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Demo

•Index some data like user name, or posts in a blog

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Demo

•We check operations were succesfull

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Demo

•We check operations were succesfull

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Demo

•Let’s search!

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Demo

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Demo

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More info

• www.elasticsearch.org

• www.elasticsearch.com

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/elasticsearch

• stackoverflow.com/questions/10213009/solr-vs-elasticsearch

• blog.socialcast.com/realtime-search-solr-vs-elasticsearch

• www.elasticsearchtutorial.com

• https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cc-mei/presentacion/CC-MEI-elasticsearch-ignaciovalencia.pdf

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Questions?