Bug#751428: ITP: elasticsearch - distributed RESTful search and analytics

[Mark Clarke <mark@jumpingbean.co.za>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mark Clarke <mark@jumpingbean.co.za>

* Package name    : elasticsearch
Version           : 1.2.1
Upstream Author   : Elasticsearch Team <info@elasticsearch.com>
* URL             : http://www.elasticsearch.org/
* License         : Apache 2
Description     : Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
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 either one of the replica shard.
 + Multi Tenant with Multi Types.
   - Support for more than one index.
   - Support for more than one type per index.
   - Index level configuration (number of shards, index storage, ...).
 + Various set of APIs
   - HTTP RESTful API
   - Native Java API.
   - All APIs perform automatic node operation rerouting.
 + Document oriented
   - No need for upfront schema definition.
   - Schema can be defined per type for customization of the indexing 
process.
 + Reliable, Asynchronous Write Behind for long term persistency.
 + (Near) Real Time Search.
 + Built on top of 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.
 + Open Source under Apache 2 License.