# Spring Data Elasticsearch - Examples


**NOTE**: Elastic recommends usage of the [High Level REST Client](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/master/java-rest-high.html). Please check out the [rest](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-examples/tree/master/elasticsearch/rest) example.

Requirements:

 * [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi) - required.
 * [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/elkdownloads) - optional.


To use local elasticsearch cluster:

* install elasticsearch 
* uncomment both properties in file 'application.properties'