PeopleSoft Search Technology Overview

The PeopleSoft Search Framework provides a standard, declarative method for creating, deploying, and maintaining search indexes for all of your PeopleSoft applications. Beginning with PeopleTools 8.56, the PeopleSoft Search Framework uses Elasticsearch as a search engine. Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine based on Apache Lucene™. PeopleTools 8.57 is integrated with Elasticsearch version 6.1.2 and Kibana 6.1.2.

The Elasticsearch search engine complements the PeopleSoft Search Framework search functionality with the following advantages:

• Seamless deployment using Elasticsearch DPK and ACM plug-ins.

• Ability to deploy highly available indexes, with fail over that is scalable.

• Excellent crawl and search performance.

• Efficient resource utilization on the search engine host making high volume crawling and searching practical.

• Excellent data recovery management.