Spring Data for Elasticsearch is part of the umbrella Spring Data project which aims to provide a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for for new datastores while retaining store-specific features and capabilities.

The Spring Data Elasticsearch project provides integration with the Elasticsearch search engine. Key functional areas of Spring Data Elasticsearch are a POJO centric model for interacting with a Elastichsearch Documents and easily writing a Repository style data access layer.

• Clients: Connectivity and configuration of various HTTP Clients.
• ElasticsearchTemplate and ReactiveElasticsearchTemplate: Helper classes that provide object mapping between ES index operations and POJOs.
• Object Mapping: Feature rich, annotation driven object mapper.
• Entity Callbacks: Before and after save, update, delete callbacks.
• Data Repositories: Repository interfaces including support for custom queries.
• Join-Types, Routing, Scripting: Integration with specific Elasticsearch features.