All About Elasticsearch Algorithms and Data Structures

Zachary Tong

Software Engineer

Elastic

Colin Goodheart-Smithe

Senior Manager, Engineering

Elastic

Fast search usually boils down to data organization, which is why Elasticsearch is based on an inverted index. But sometimes speed comes from clever algorithms. Last year we looked at four such algorithms, but there are dozens more. In this talk we'll explore a new set of interesting algorithms in Elasticsearch.