How to install elasticsearch under windows (Graphic)

ES is a Lucene based distributed full-text search server, Similar to the full text index of SQL server, both are full-text search engines based on word segmentation and segmentation. They have the functions of word segmentation, synonym and stem query, but es naturally has distributed and real-time properties. This essay demonstrates the installation of elasticsearch in Windows environment and the head plug-in for managing elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch website: http://www.elasticsearch.org

1. Download and install Java se development package from Java se download, as shown in the figure:

Elasticsearch is sensitive to the JRE version. The wrong version will make elasticsearch unable to run. Download the archived JRE, please download the appropriate version from the Java archive.

Download the elasticsearch installation package from the official download center elasticsearch download. At the time of screenshot, the latest version of ES is 5.1 2. This article uses the old version 2.4 4. Open past releases, select the previous version for installation, and download the zip file format. The landlord chooses to install 2.4 The reason for version 4 is 5.1 Version 2 does not support the head plug-in.

Recommended book: elasticsearch server development (2nd Edition). This book uses curl tool to call es API. In fact, using head plug-in, the URL of API sending request to es server can be easily constructed in any request tab to realize the same function: