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Elasticsearch

Category
Databases and data
Latest
9.5.6
Released
Nov 2, 2026
Docs outline
14 sections

Official docs outline

elastic.co
  1. Data Store: Indices, Documents and Mappings

    Documents, indices, JSON storage, near-real-time search and the data store overview.

  2. Mapping and Field Types

    Explicit versus dynamic mapping, field types, keyword vs text, multi-fields and mapping explosion.

  3. Text Analysis

    Analyzers, tokenizers, token filters, normalizers and index-time vs search-time analysis.

  4. Ingest and Pipelines

    Bulk indexing, ingest pipelines, processors and data enrichment.

  5. Full-Text Search and Relevance

    Match queries, BM25 relevance scoring, boosting and relevance tuning.

  6. Query DSL

    Leaf and compound queries, bool, filter context versus query context, term-level queries.

  7. Aggregations

    Bucket, metric and pipeline aggregations, analytics over documents.

  8. ES|QL

    Piped query language for filtering, transforming and aggregating data.

  9. Vector and Semantic Search

    dense_vector, kNN search, embeddings, semantic_text and hybrid search.

  10. Clusters, Nodes and Shards

    Primary and replica shards, node roles, shard allocation, cluster state and resilience.

  11. Data Streams

    Time-series append-only data, backing indices, rollover and data stream design.

  12. Index Lifecycle Management

    Hot, warm, cold and frozen tiers, rollover, retention and ILM policies.

  13. Snapshot and Restore

    Repositories, snapshot lifecycle and cluster recovery.

  14. Security

    Authentication, role-based access control, TLS and API keys.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
9.5 Aug 4, 2026 9.5.6 Supported
9.4 May 5, 2026 9.4.9 Supported
9.3 Feb 3, 2026 9.3.8 Ended Aug 4, 2026
9.2 Oct 23, 2025 9.2.8 Ended May 5, 2026
9.1 Jul 29, 2025 9.1.10 Ended Feb 3, 2026
8.19 Jul 29, 2025 8.19.24 Until Jul 15, 2027

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