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Introduction
editIntroduction
editYou’ve reached the documentation page for Elasticsearch.Net
and NEST
, The two official .NET clients for Elasticsearch.
Why two clients?
editElasticsearch.Net
is a very low level, dependency free, client that has no opinions about how you build and represent your requests and responses. It has abstracted
enough so that all the Elasticsearch API endpoints are represented as methods but not too much to get in the way of how you want to build
your json/request/response objects. It also comes with built in, configurable/overridable, cluster failover retry mechanisms. Elasticsearch is elastic so why not your client?
NEST
is a high level client that maps all requests and responses as types, and
comes with a strongly typed query DSL that maps 1 to 1 with the Elasticsearch query DSL. It takes advantage of specific .NET
features to provide higher level abstractions such as auto mapping of CLR types. Internally,
NEST uses and still exposes the low level Elasticsearch.Net
client, providing access to the power of NEST and allowing
users to drop down to the low level client when wishing to.
Please read the getting started guide for both Elasticsearch.Net and NEST.
Questions, bugs, comments, feature requests
editBug reports and Feature requests are more than welcome on the github issues pages! We try to at least reply within the same day.
For more general questions and comments, we monitor questions tagged with nest
and
elasticsearch-net
on Stackoverflow, as well as
discussions opened on our Discourse site, discuss.elastic.co. By mentioning
NEST
or Elasticsearch.Net
in the title will help folks quickly identify what the question is about.