#948384 RFP: elasticsearch -- "Open Source" (but non-free and not OSI-compliant), Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Alessandro Barbieri
Date:
2025-11-29 16:45:43 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#948384#5
Date:
2020-01-08 01:23:54 UTC
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* Package name    : elasticsearch
  Version         : 7.5
  Upstream Author : info@elastic.co
* URL             : https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine


Fully free version here: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-oss
Already packaged by upstream here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/deb.html#deb-repo


Elasticsearch is a distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud. Features include:

    Distributed and Highly Available Search Engine.

        Each index is fully sharded with a configurable number of shards.

        Each shard can have one or more replicas.

        Read / Search operations performed on any of the replica shards.

    Multi Tenant.

        Support for more than one index.

        Index level configuration (number of shards, index storage, …​).

    Various set of APIs

        HTTP RESTful API

        All APIs perform automatic node operation rerouting.

    Document oriented

        No need for upfront schema definition.

        Schema can be defined for customization of the indexing process.

    Reliable, Asynchronous Write Behind for long term persistency.

    (Near) Real Time Search.

    Built on top of Apache Lucene

        Each shard is a fully functional Lucene index

        All the power of Lucene easily exposed through simple configuration / plugins.

    Per operation consistency

        Single document level operations are atomic, consistent, isolated and durable.
#948384#14
Date:
2020-10-07 15:58:13 UTC
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Hello Kartik,

Have you made any progress on this in the past nine months? Are there any
blockers? Do you need help? It would be great to have this packaged within
Debian.

Thanks,
--Joe
#948384#19
Date:
2020-10-09 02:35:21 UTC
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Okay, I'm not available this weekend, but give it a shot and send an email
with how far you got.
--Joe
#948384#26
Date:
2021-01-02 21:51:46 UTC
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Due to lack of time and other constraints last year I was unable to
look into the package at all and I think it's better for someone else
to package it.
I do not know if I should just put it back as RFP but for now I have
retitled it as O.
I apologize for holding it for so long and not giving it back sooner.

Regards,
Kartik Kulkarni
#948384#33
Date:
2021-02-15 04:33:43 UTC
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Hi,

Kartik Kulkarni wrote:

Nobody will gonna package this for Debian anymore since they changed
their license to the non-free SSPL. MongoDB got kicked out because of
doing that. Tagging as wontfix for now.

Yes.

That's wrong as "O:" is just for packages _already_ in Debian. I'm
retitling it back to RFP with this mail accordingly.

		Regards, Axel