There are just too many database technologists, daily speaking SQL, to ignore. An SQL query engine would pave a familiar path into the Elasticsearch realm for RDBMS users.

Customers have always loved the speed of Elasticsearch for search,” he said. “Now, with this new query API and new query engine, we have blazing fast performance for queries as well.” ...

SQL Support: This feature allows you to query your cluster using SQL statements. It is an improved version of the elasticsearch-sql plugin, and supports a rich set of statements.

Elasticsearch, which is an Apache’s Lucene library-based search engine, can be used to run full-text search queries on JSON documents via a web interface.

Elasticsearch SQL improvements New functionality, such as, the ability to query IP address fields, native support for date histograms, and support for geo querying are great for all users of ...