This document provides a summary of Elasticsearch by Tom Chen. It discusses that Elasticsearch is a powerful open source search and analytics engine that is distributed, scalable and real-time. It can be used for storing, searching and analyzing large volumes of data. The document then highlights some of Elasticsearch's key features, including its powerful search capabilities using Lucene queries, and aggregations that allow faceted searches and results. Code examples are provided to demonstrate indexing data and running searches and aggregations. Finally, the document mentions a code example on GitHub that uses Elasticsearch to build a search function for a WordPress site.