= Preface

The Spring Data Elasticsearch project applies core Spring concepts to the development of solutions using the Elasticsearch Search Engine. We have povided a "template" as a high-level abstraction for storing,querying,sorting and faceting documents. You will notice similarities to the Spring data solr and mongodb support in the Spring Framework.

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== Project Metadata

* Version Control - https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-elasticsearch
* Bugtracker - https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAES
* Release repository - https://repo.spring.io/libs-release
* Milestone repository - https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone
* Snapshot repository - https://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot

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== Requirements

Requires https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch[Elasticsearch] 0.20.2 and above or optional dependency or not even that if you are using Embedded Node Client

