We can use elastic search with spring boot application and for this below are the detailed steps which can be followed. (Please note there some compatibility issue with some version of elastic search hence choose the appropriate one as per your need, I have used the version 2.4.0 with my spring boot app version 1.4.0.RELEASE) 1. Download and unzip the elastic search from http://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-2-4-0 2. Open config file \elasticsearch-2.4.0\config\elasticsearch.yml and change the cluster name if needed, uncomment and add the value to property 3. Run the elastic search by clicking on batch file, \elasticsearch-2.4.0\bin\elasticsearch.bat (Here this is going to run the elastic search on separate server than your application i.e localhost:9300 ) 4. Add the below dependency to your spring application <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch</artifactId> </dependency> 5. Add the below properties to application.properties file spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-name= spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-nodes=localhost:9300 6. To enable the elastic search repository which will be used to save/generate/delete the search… Read more“How to integrate elastic search with spring boot application”