This document summarizes how Elasticsearch can be used for scaling analytics applications. Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics engine that can index large volumes of data. It automatically shards and replicates data across nodes for redundancy and high availability. Analytics queries like date histograms, statistical facets, and geospatial searches can retrieve insightful results from large datasets very quickly. The document provides an example of using Elasticsearch to perform sentiment analysis, location tagging, and analytical queries on over 100 million social media documents.