[[java-rest-overview]]
== Overview

The Java REST Client comes with 2 flavors:

* <<java-rest-low>>: which is the official low-level client for Elasticsearch.
It allows to communicate with an Elasticsearch cluster through http and is compatible
with all elasticsearch versions.

* <<java-rest-high>>: which is the official high-level client for Elasticsearch. It adds support
part of the elasticsearch document level and search API on top of the low-level client.