# Difference between Lucene used in ElasticSearch and Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 11, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207 "2019-06-11T13:59:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![saravananselvamohan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saravananselvamohan/32/47407_2.png) [@saravananselvamohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravananselvamohan)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/1 "2019-06-11T13:59:47Z")

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What is the difference between Lucene used in ElasticSearch and Lucene used for Kibana? Or whether both work on top of single Lucene application code by integrating Elasticsearch and Kibana.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/2 "2019-06-11T14:34:58Z")

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Kibana is s front end for Elasticsearch, which does all the heavy processing.

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**Author:** ![saravananselvamohan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saravananselvamohan/32/47407_2.png) [@saravananselvamohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravananselvamohan)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/3 "2019-06-11T16:00:26Z")

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But I need some explanation about Lucene in both the tools ElasticSearch and Kibana

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/4 "2019-06-11T16:10:53Z")

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Kibana calls elasticsearch which calls Lucene.

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**Author:** ![saravananselvamohan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saravananselvamohan/32/47407_2.png) [@saravananselvamohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravananselvamohan)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/5 "2019-06-12T07:23:06Z")

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Then about Lucene Syntax Search we using in Kibana?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/6 "2019-06-12T07:27:38Z")

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Yes, because Kibana connects to Elasticsearch via the APIs and then queries the shards.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-lucene-used-in-elasticsearch-and-kibana/185207/7 "2019-07-10T07:27:47Z")

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