[Argorak]

Beyond the technology, Elasticsearch has a very mature, active and helpful community with users groups all over the world. We're well connected.

Pick your favourite users group here: http://elasticsearch.meetup.com/

Full disclosure: I started and run the Berlin UG. We set ourselves apart by always providing a small introduction into ES for those that are completely new and would have a hard time following the main talk.

[shurane]

Intros to ES and other technologies are useful.

I don't see many tutorials covering usage of ES here: http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/

Could you maybe provide a link to yours?

[Argorak]

The introduction is in person, at the users group.

Yep, tutorials is a huge problem, but there are people working on that.