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Elasticsearch

The heart of the Elastic Stack.

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Overview

Elasticsearch is a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. It is the central component of the Elastic Stack, a set of free and open tools for data ingestion, enrichment, storage, analysis, and visualization.

✨ Key Features

  • Full-text search
  • Scalability and resilience
  • Real-time analytics
  • RESTful API
  • Multi-tenancy

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Performance and scalability
  • Ease of use and developer-friendly API
  • Rich ecosystem of tools (Elastic Stack)

Unique Value: Enables users to search, analyze, and visualize large volumes of data in near real-time.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Log analytics Full-text search Security analytics (SIEM) Business analytics Application performance monitoring (APM)

✅ Best For

  • Centralized logging and analysis of large volumes of data
  • Powering search functionality for websites and applications
  • Building security information and event management (SIEM) solutions

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Transactional data and relational databases
  • Simple key-value storage

🏆 Alternatives

Splunk Solr Amazon OpenSearch Service

Offers a more modern and developer-friendly experience compared to older search technologies, and a more flexible and open platform compared to some commercial alternatives.

💻 Platforms

Self-hosted Cloud (Elastic Cloud) API

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

Kibana Logstash Beats Grafana

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Standard and above tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 2 Type II ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ GDPR ✓ HIPAA ✓ FedRAMP

💰 Pricing

Contact for pricing
Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: Basic features are free

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