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The official low-level Elasticsearch client for Node.js and the browser.
⚠️ This client is no longer maintained. We strongly advise you to migrate to the new Elasticsearch client.
Please read the announcement of the new Elasticsearch JavaScript client or navigate to the repository directly.
We have built a migration guide that will help you move to the new client quickly.
Mongoose is an ODM (Object Data Modeling) library for MongoDB and Node.js. It provides a schema-based solution to model your application data. While it is similar in that it interacts with a database, it is specific to MongoDB and offers features like schema validation and middleware, which are not provided by the elasticsearch package.
Redis is a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store. The redis npm package allows you to interact with a Redis database. While it offers some overlapping functionalities like data storage and retrieval, it is designed for different use cases such as caching and real-time analytics, unlike Elasticsearch which is optimized for full-text search and complex queries.
Couchbase is a distributed NoSQL cloud database. The couchbase npm package allows you to interact with a Couchbase server. It offers similar functionalities like indexing and querying documents but is designed for high-performance applications requiring low-latency data access, whereas Elasticsearch is optimized for search and analytics.
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The official low-level Elasticsearch client for Node.js and the browser.
The npm package elasticsearch receives a total of 234,745 weekly downloads. As such, elasticsearch popularity was classified as popular.
We found that elasticsearch demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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