What is Elasticsearch and why is it so fast

Let’s start our journey with Elasticsearch

Lynn Kwong
4 min readMar 23, 2021

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Elasticsearch is the most popular open-source enterprise search engine based on the Lucene library, which allows the creation of indices on every field of a document by default. Another popular search engine based on the Lucene library is Apache Solr.

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Lynn Kwong

I’m a Software Developer (https://www.superdataminer.com) keen on sharing thoughts, tutorials, and solutions for the best practice of software development.