About Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
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#5 of 10 Search engines we have counts for (of 52) · bars are GitHub stars across these neighbours; the category leader is Meilisearch at 59k · as of August 22, 2026
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