What exactly are you trying to do? ElasticSearch isn't that difficult and the new guide they published a few months ago walks you through getting it set up wit

What exactly are you trying to do? ElasticSearch isn't that difficult and the new guide they published a few months ago walks you through getting it set up without going too in-depth [1]. As a beginner I had it running on a $5 digitalocean droplet within a couple hours and indexed way over "a couple thousand" documents before the end of the day. But if your needs are really that simple, MySQL does support full-text search [2]. [1] http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/intro.html http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/i... [2] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html