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WhatisElasticsearch?
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Elasticsearch
Definition.
Elasticsearch: A search engine based on the Lucene library, providing a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface.
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I reach for this only once PostgreSQL's built-in full-text search genuinely can't keep up — for most projects under a few hundred thousand records, Postgres search is simpler to operate and one less service to keep running.
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