Recently I had a customer project that required transferring large amounts of data from a relational database to the NoSQL database that is Elasticsearch in order to take advantage of its famous fast searching capabilities. Elasticsearch is part of the ELK stack that is released and maintained by Elastic.co. The abbreviation ELK stand for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

Alberto Martínez Ballesteros explains the integration of elasticsearch in a Liferay Portal, an innovation for which mimacom earned the Liferay Innovation Award in 2014, a price awarded by the german Liferay community. The volume of data is growing faster. Elasticsearch is a powerful search engine and data analyzer which provides an extraordinary experience for the user. The elasticsearch index is the basis for the improvement of functionalities, such as autocomplete, synonyms and geo location search. Nowadays, advanced analytics and data visualization can be executed with tools like Kibana,…

Big Data visualization, easy and beautiful with Kibana. The Webinar in German “Visualize Data with ELK” focuses on the data visualization with Kibana, which is part of the elasticsearch ELK application stack. ​During the webinar we create a Kibana dashboard that includes real time interactive reports and graphic charts. These outputs allow you to dig into your dataset and start analyzing patterns. We also show you how to import from log file data using Logstash and other data sources, such as Hadoop. ​The webinar is mainly intended for Data Analysts and Leaders of IT-Departments, as well as…