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 8.58 is integrated with Elasticsearch version 7.0, Kibana version 7.0, and Logstash 7.0. In addition to this, PeopleTools 8.58.13 and later are integrated with Elasticsearch version 7.10, Kibana version 7.10, and Logstash 7.10.

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.

• Efficient data collection engine and analytic and visualization platform.