For an upcoming side project the core feature is search. For this reason I was thinking about searching today. I’ve played a little with ElasticSearch in the past, but haven’t really gotten my hands dirty with it.

I knew that I needed to search geospatially, which I’ve done in the past using PostGis and PostGreSQL. I wondered if ElasticSearch could search geospatial data — it does, quite well in fact!

Here’s some resource on ElasticSearch I found useful:

Talk

• Laracon, integrating with ElasticSearch

Articles

• Boosting by Popularity
• Integrating ElasticSearch with Laravel
• Algolia, Algolia vs ElasticSearch
• Quora, Algolia vs ElasticSearch

Packages

• searchindex
• larasearch
• Elasticquent