Elasticbox

Elasticbox is a simple bare bone app for test TIKA and Elasticsearch features.

Requisites

• JDK 8
• Git: follow installation instructions from site.
• Maven: follow installation instructions from site.

Make sure all executable programs (like java, mvn and git) are linked to your PATH environment variable

Technology stack

• Main

  • ElasticSearch
  • Kibana
  • Apache Tika
  • Spring Boot

• Tools

  • elasticsearch-head
  • ElasticHQ
  • elasticsearch-kopf
  • bigdesk

• Others

  • Elasticsearch.Net
  • Elasticsearch Indexing Performance Cheatsheet
  • exploring elasticsearch
  • Elasticsearch Cheat Sheet (1)
  • Elasticsearch Cheat Sheet (2)
  • Marvel

Installation

git clone https://github.com/fvalmeida/elasticbox.git
cd elasticbox
mvn package

Running

1. After build, copy target directory content to your desired installation path

2. From elasticsearch directory, start it

   Run bin/elasticsearch on Unix or bin/elasticsearch.bat on Windows

3. There are many ways to index files:

   • Copy elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar to desired path that will be indexed and run it

     java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar
     

   • From installation path run elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar with paths argument

     java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar --paths=/Users/fvalmeida/Documents
     

   Usage:

   java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar <options>
   
      -?, -h, --help
         Show the help
   
      --index.name=<value>
         Elasticsearch index name (default: "elasticbox")
   
      --filter=<syntax:pattern>
         A filter that may be used to match paths against the pattern
         Supports the "glob" and "regex" syntaxes
   
      --paths=<comma-separated paths>
         Paths for index to Elasticsearch (default: "current directory")
   
      --recursive=<true|false>
          Index path recursively (default: true)
   
      --spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-nodes=<comma-separated nodes>
          Elasticsearch cluster nodes (default: "localhost:9300")
   
      --thread-count=<number of threads>
         Max number of threads (default: 10)
   
      --error.logging.file=<value>
         Error logging file (default: "elasticbox.error.log")
   
   Examples:
      java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar
      java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar --recursive=false
      java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar --paths=/Documents --index.name=documents
      java -jar elasticbox-tika-indexer.jar --filter=glob:*.{pdf,doc}