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Geo spatial queries with elasticsearch

Other than PostGIS, Elasticsearch has the similar functionality to do geo spatial queries. Here I am not going to compare between these two technologies, but to my limited knowledge, elasticsearch could be used for geo spatial search, however it should not be used to store persistent data as opposed to PostgreSQL and PostGIS. I will focus instead to how to index geo spatial documents / data and query it.

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How to get elasticsearch up in docker-compose with colima

Elasticsearch is a great tool to enable search within, not only text data, but also multifield objects. Colima is an alternative to docker, since docker desktop has changed their license to be more commercial focus I have to search for alternative and I found that Colima is one stable alternative for mac. In this guide I will introduce a quick start how to get elasticsearch up in local development environment with docker-compose and colima.

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