The goal of this book is to get you up and running with ES-Hadoop and enable you to solve real-world analytics problems. To take the first step towards doing this, we will start with setting up Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and related toolsets, which you will use throughout the rest of the book.

We encourage you to try the examples in the book (along with reading) to speed up the learning process.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: