Downloading and installing ElasticSearch

ElasticSearch has an active community and the release cycles are very fast.

Because ElasticSearch depends on many common Java libraries (Lucene, Guice, and Jackson are the most famous ones), the ElasticSearch community tries to keep them updated and fix bugs that are discovered in them and in ElasticSearch core.

If it's possible, the best practice is to use the latest available release (usually the more stable one).

Getting ready

A supported ElasticSearch Operative System (Linux/MacOSX/Windows) with installed Java JVM 1.6 or above is required. A web browser is required to download the ElasticSearch binary release.

How to do it...

For downloading and installing an ElasticSearch server, we will perform the steps given as follows:

1. Download ElasticSearch from the Web.

   The latest version is always downloadable from the web address http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/.

   There are versions available for different operative systems:

   • elasticsearch-{version-number...