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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing plugins in ElasticSearch


One of the main features of ElasticSearch is the possibility to extend it with plugins. Plugins extend ElasticSearch features and functionality in several ways. There are two kinds of plugins:

  • Site plugins: These are used to serve static content at their entry points. They are mainly used to create a management application for the monitoring and administration of a cluster. The most common site plugins are:

  • Native plugins: These are the .jar files that contain the application code. They are used for:

    • Rivers (plugins that allow you to import data from DBMS or other sources)

    • Scripting Language Engines (JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Ruby)

    • Custom analyzers, tokenizers, and scoring

    • REST entry points

    • Supporting new protocols (Thrift, memcache, and so on)

    • Supporting new storages (Hadoop)

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch server...