# Is elasticsearch a standalone fulltextretrieval system? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 12, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970 "2012-03-12T18:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thomasmueller2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@thomasmueller2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasmueller2)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970/1 "2012-03-12T18:57:54Z")
Hello, We had a look on GSA and OpenSearchServer and are wondering if elasticsearch is something similar (standalone fulltextretrieval system), e.g. where the enduser can enter searchterms in a browser based search mask? Thank you for any feedback! Thomas ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970/2 "2012-03-13T11:18:02Z")
Thomas, Elasticsearch is a complete distributed search backend that exposes HTTP, Java, and other APIs. It currently doesn't have a front-end UI, but I'm sure people are working on it. If you are evaluating and comparing ES to GSA or OpenSearchServer this should not discourage you at all - the UI is the easiest part of the story. ## Otis Hiring Elasticsearch Engineers World-Wide -- > **[Jobs](https://sematext.com/jobs/)** > > We’re Hiring We are always looking for smart, passionate, motivated, and independent people regardless of where on the planet they may be. Learn more about the company Agent & Backend Engineer Full Stack Developer Backend Engineer Frontend... On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:57:54 AM UTC+8, [thomasm...@hushmail.com](mailto:thomasm...@hushmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > > We had a look on GSA and OpenSearchServer and are wondering if > elasticsearch is something similar (standalone fulltextretrieval system), > e.g. where the enduser can enter searchterms in a browser based search > mask? > > Thank you for any feedback! > > Thomas ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970/3 "2012-03-13T11:35:48Z")
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \< [otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote: > Thomas, > > Elasticsearch is a complete distributed search backend that exposes HTTP, > Java, and other APIs. It currently doesn't have a front-end UI, but I'm > sure people are working on it. > If you are evaluating and comparing ES to GSA or OpenSearchServer this > should not discourage you at all - the UI is the easiest part of the story. [OT] I wouldn't say that UI is easy to do. In my experience I found building good functional and nice search UI can be much harder then running ES cluster. 🙂 > ## Otis > > Hiring Elasticsearch Engineers World-Wide -- [About Sematext - Solr / Elasticsearch Experts](http://sematext.com/about/)\*\* > jobs.html#search [http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html#search](http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html#search) > > On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:57:54 AM UTC+8, thomasm...@hushmail.comwrote: > > > Hello, > > > > We had a look on GSA and OpenSearchServer and are wondering if > > elasticsearch is something similar (standalone fulltextretrieval system), > > e.g. where the enduser can enter searchterms in a browser based search > > mask? > > > > Thank you for any feedback! > > > > Thomas ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970/4 "2012-03-13T11:55:34Z")
I agree with you both. It depends on your datas. If your docs are really "simple", as an attachment is simply a single field, it's easy to build a google like interface on it. I started with a friend to build a simple JSF/Primefaces webapp on top of ES for searching into files (filesystem crawling) and my opinion is that : - Integrate ES is quite easy - Creating the interface could be also quite easy So it really depends on what you are after. It also depends on your own skills. 😉 The good thing with ES is that you can apply the AGILE method. Start simple with a really simple user story (google search) and then add more features (facets, filters, autocompletion, mappings, ...). David. Le 13 mars 2012 à 12:35, "Lukáš Vlček" [lukas.vlcek@gmail.com](mailto:lukas.vlcek@gmail.com) a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \< > [otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com) [mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com) \> wrote: > > > Elasticsearch is a complete distributed search backend that exposes HTTP, > > Java, and other APIs. It currently doesn't have a front-end UI, but I'm > > sure people are working on it. > > If you are evaluating and comparing ES to GSA or OpenSearchServer this > > should not discourage you at all - the UI is the easiest part of the story. > > > > [OT] I wouldn't say that UI is easy to do. In my experience I found > > building good functional and nice search UI can be much harder then running > > ES cluster. 🙂 > > > > > ## Otis > > > > > > Hiring Elasticsearch Engineers World-Wide -- [About Sematext - Solr / Elasticsearch Experts](http://sematext.com/about/) > > > jobs.html#search [http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html#search](http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html#search) > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:57:54 AM UTC+8, [thomasm...@hushmail.com](mailto:thomasm...@hushmail.com) > > > [mailto:thomasm...@hushmail.com](mailto:thomasm...@hushmail.com) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > We had a look on GSA and OpenSearchServer and are wondering if > > > elasticsearch is something similar (standalone fulltextretrieval system), > > > e.g. where the enduser can enter searchterms in a browser based search > > > mask? > > > > > > Thank you for any feedback! > > > > > > Thomas =?672b8991-7d9c-4375-956e-27f0ad042409-- > > -- > David Pilato > [http://dev.david.pilato.fr/](http://dev.david.pilato.fr/) > Twitter : @dadoonet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elasticsearch-a-standalone-fulltextretrieval-system/6970/5 "2017-07-06T03:36:20Z")