This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install and configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04.

Elasticsearch is an open source, Java-based search engine that provides a distributed, scalable and speedy search and analytics platform via an HTTP web interface, schema-free JSON-style documents and built on Apache Lucene library.

For businesses looking for solutions to search their complex and big data, including eCommerce database easily, Elasticsearch might be a good place to start.

For more about Elasticsearch, please check its homepage.

Step 1: Install OpenJDK 8

Elasticsearch is based on Java and requires Java to be installed… You can either install Oracle Java Standard Edition 8 or use the open source version of Java called OpenJDK 8.

For this tutorial, we’re going to be installing OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu… To do that, run the commands below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

After that run the commands below to see if Java is successfully installed…

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