Elasticsearch
Distributed search and analytics engine that stores and queries structured, unstructured and vector data over an HTTP API.
www.elastic.co/elasticsearchrepositorydocs
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine written in Java. It stores structured, unstructured and vector data and queries it through a REST API. Elastic, a company, develops it and offers Elastic Cloud, a hosted version available as serverless and hosted deployments. Each distribution bundles its own OpenJDK, so a separate Java installation is not needed to run the server. The self-managed installation guide describes the archive, package and container options.
Worth knowing
The repository’s default license is a choice of AGPL-3.0-only, SSPL-1.0 or Elastic License 2.0. Code in the x-pack folder is under Elastic License 2.0 alone.
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Rendering and deploy
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- 2026-10-19: links, Maintained by, Categories, Content API
www.elastic.co/elasticsearch - 2026-10-19: links, Written in, GitHub stars
github.com/elastic/elasticsearch - 2026-10-19: links, Runtime, Install with, Runs as
www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/installing-elasticsearch - 2026-10-20: Maintainer
www.elastic.co/legal/privacy-statement - 2026-10-19: License, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/elasticsearch/main/LICENSE.txt - 2026-10-19: Current major version
endoflife.date/api/elasticsearch.json - 2026-10-19: Last release
api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/latest - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
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