This document provides an introduction to using Elasticsearch for real-time search in Drupal. It discusses Elasticsearch's features like being RESTful, open source, JSON over HTTP, distributed, highly available, and schema free. It then demonstrates how to setup Elasticsearch, index and search data, and use facets. Finally, it mentions Elasticsearch and Search API Elasticsearch modules for Drupal, and ongoing work to implement the Field Storage API in Elasticsearch to integrate it more fully into Drupal.