Click to go back

Elastic Search

Elastic Search is a NoSQL Database and is primarily a search engine and is built with java.

After installing it the directory where Elastic Search is present in is called as the $ES_HOME directory. And we can find the following items in the following locations

Item Location Comments
Config files $ES_HOME/config Has 3 files for configuring elastic search, jvm and logging
Data files $ES_HOME/data Where the actual data files will be present
Log files $ES_HOME/logs Where the log files will be present
Binary files $ES_HOME/bin Contains the script to run elasticsearch and elasticsearch-plugin
Plugin files $ES_HOME/plugins Contains the plugin files