elastic/elasticsearch

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

Data & analyticsJava#elasticsearch#java#search-engine

2.1 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 12:10 UTC.

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About the project

Distributed search and analytics engine with a REST API and vector search support. Used for full-text search, logs, metrics, APM, and RAG applications.

Useful for

Spin up a local Elasticsearch and Kibana cluster in Docker for development
Build full-text search over a large document set via the REST API
Assemble a RAG pipeline using vector search over a knowledge base

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

4 stars so far today, about 10 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending this week: #18, +94 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @kalayciburak (284 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 78,021
Today: 4 · ≈ 10 by evening
Forks: 26,094
Issues and pull requests: 159,919
Watchers: 2,621
Language: Java
Latest release: v8.19.22 · September 23, 2026
Created: February 8, 2010
Last push: September 28, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 28, 2026GitHub Trending this week: #18, +94 stars

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