How to install the ElasticSearch search tool and configure the Python driver

This article describes how to install the ElasticSearch search tool and configure the Python driver. It also describes how to use it with the Kibana data display client, for more information, see ElasticSearch as a Lucene-based search server. It provides a distributed full-text search engine with multi-user capabilities, based on RESTful web interfaces. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and released as an open source code under the Apache license terms. It is the second most popular enterprise search engine. Designed for cloud computing, it can achieve real-time search, stable, reliable, fast, and easy to install and use.
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Elasticsearch is a new member of the open-source search platform. It provides real-time data analysis artifacts and is growing rapidly, based on Lucene, RESTful, distributed, cloud computing-oriented design, real-time search, full-text search, stable, highly reliable, scalable, and easy to install and use, the introduction is quite nice, take it out for a moment.
After a simple test, about 20 million pieces of data are inserted on two identical virtual machines. Elasticsearch inserts data much slower (tolerable) than MongoDB ), however, the Search/query speed is more than 10 times faster. This is only the case of a single machine. Elasticsearch performs better in multi-machine clusters. The following installation steps are completed on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS.

Install Elasticsearch
Install Oracle Java 7 after upgrading the system. Since Elasticsearch officially recommends using Oracle JDK 7, do not try JDK 8 or OpenJDK:

$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

After adding Elasticsearch official sources, install elasticsearch:

$ wget -O - http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | apt-key add -$ sudo echo "deb http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.1/debian stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

Add to the System Startup File and start the elasticsearch service. Use curl to test whether the installation is successful:

$ sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 1 $ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start $ curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200'{ "status" : 200, "name" : "Fer-de-Lance", "version" : {  "number" : "1.1.1",  "build_hash" : "f1585f096d3f3985e73456debdc1a0745f512bbc",  "build_timestamp" : "2014-04-16T14:27:12Z",  "build_snapshot" : false,  "lucene_version" : "4.7" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"}

Elasticsearch's cluster and Data Management Interface Marvel is awesome. Unfortunately, it is only free of charge for the development environment. If this tool is free of charge, it will be invincible. The installation is simple. After the tool is complete, restart the service to access http: // 192.168.2.172: 9200/_ plugin/marvel/you can see the interface:

$ sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest $ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart * Stopping Elasticsearch Server                      [ OK ] * Starting Elasticsearch Server                      [ OK ]

Install the Python client driver
Like MongoDB, we generally use a program to interact with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch also supports client drivers in multiple languages. Here, only the Python driver is installed. For other languages, see the official documentation.

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip$ sudo pip install elasticsearch

Write a simple program to import data from gene_info.txt to Elasticsearch:

#!/usr/bin/python# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- import os, os.path, sys, reimport csv, time, stringfrom datetime import datetimefrom elasticsearch import Elasticsearch def import_to_db():  data = csv.reader(open('gene_info.txt', 'rb'), delimiter='\t')  data.next()   es = Elasticsearch()  for row in data:    doc = {      'tax_id': row[0],      'GeneID': row[1],      'Symbol': row[2],      'LocusTag': row[3],      'Synonyms': row[4],      'dbXrefs': row[5],      'chromosome': row[6],      'map_location': row[7],      'description': row[8],      'type_of_gene': row[9],      'Symbol_from_nomenclature_authority': row[10],      'Full_name_from_nomenclature_authority': row[11],      'Nomenclature_status': row[12],      'Other_designations': row[13],      'Modification_date': row[14]    }    res = es.index(index="gene", doc_type='gene_info', body=doc) def main():  import_to_db() if __name__ == "__main__":  main()

Kibana is a powerful data display client. It is integrated with Elasticsearch through plug-ins. It is easy to install and download and decompress it. Then restart the Elasticsearch service to access http: // 192.168.2.172: 9200/_ plugin/kibana/To see the interface:

$ wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-3.0.1.tar.gz$ tar zxvf kibana-3.0.1.tar.gz$ sudo mv kibana-3.0.1 /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/_site$ sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart