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Dev tools · October 23, 2015

Make an Elasticsearch-Powered REST API for Any Data with Ramses

This guest blog post acts as a short guide on how to download a dataset and create an Elasticsearch-powered REST API with Ramses.

Make an Elasticsearch-Powered REST API for Any Data with Ramses launched on October 23, 2015 with 7 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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In this short guide, I'm going to show you how to download a dataset and create a REST API. This new API uses Elasticsearch to power the endpoints, so you can build a product around your data without having to directly expose Elasticsearch in production. This allows for proper authentication, authorization, custom logic, other databases, and even auto-generated client libraries. Ramses is a bit like Parse for open source. It provides the convenience of a "backend as a service", except that you run the server yourself and have full access to the internals. I recently came across the Gender Inequality Index, an interesting dataset published by the UN Development Programme. This dataset is a…from elastic.co

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