Elasticsearch – Everything You Need To Know

Nowadays, data is becoming more important than ever to most businesses, regardless of their industry. If your business or enterprise handles large swaths of data (personal or otherwise), it’s easy to get bogged down by the day-to-day management, encryption, access, and analysis of this data.

As such, it’s vital to have a reliable and secure technological solution for handling data, something that SearchBlox, a widely renowned software company, focuses on specifically. SearchBlox is trusted by a swath of government entities and major enterprises, all of which rely on their tools to handle thousands of pieces of data on an annual basis.

One of SearchBlox’s most powerful and exciting search tools for enterprise-level businesses is a tool called Elasticsearch, which is a piece of opensource search software. Here are the answers to a few questions about what Elasticsearch can do for you and your business.

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What Are Some Of Elasticsearch’s Top End-User Features?

Elasticsearch has a wide variety of features that make it a top choice for businesses looking for a fast and reliable way to search through, organize, and analyze large batches of data. This is especially true for personal data, which could be the data of customers, constituents, or clients.

One of the best things about Elasticsearch is that searches can be performed across a variety of platforms and databases. For example, you can configure Elasticsearch to search across data in Oracle and MySQL as well as other file systems and custom content—not to mention CSV files.

Searches can also be performed through a variety of data types, including boolean searches, as well as wildcard searches and fuzzy searches. Plus, with optical character recognition, even images and digital documents can be included in what’s being searched in your database.

How Do Administrators Benefit From Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch has a few key features that make it simple and effective for your admin team to set up. For starters, their web admin console makes managing Elasticsearch an incredibly straightforward process, thanks to an intuitive set of features and user interface.

Admins can also configure indexing to be performed at the click of a button or regularly via a predetermined schedule. Real-time reporting is also a benefit of using Elasticsearch from an administrator’s perspective since it’s possible to get daily, hourly, and weekly reports on searches.

Does Elasticsearch Use End-To-End Encryption For Its Data Search?

Obviously, if you’re planning on using Elasticsearch for highly sensitive data, you’re going to be concerned about data security. This is especially understandable with how frequently large companies are in the news for egregious data breaches—events that hurt your image and your business.

While Elasticsearch does use encryption for your data while it’s on a hard disk and in transit, it’s important that you take a few steps as a company to prevent data leaks as well when using search. This is because, in order to actually access your data, it needs to be decrypted in order to be read by the search tool.

Thankfully, SearchBlox and Elasticsearch have come up with a unique solution to this problem which ultimately allows you to search your data while it’s still protected by some form of encryption. Known as their data privacy module, this addition to Elasticsearch makes it so that any user can search for data but only specific users are able to view the data in its decrypted state.

This is particularly key for those who work in the healthcare field or for a government entity. You can rest easy knowing that your customers’ sensitive data is only viewable to authorized users. This ultimately ensures that with proper training you won’t have to worry about the liability of a data leak and the negative press that necessarily ensues.

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