[[modules-thrift]] == Thrift The https://thrift.apache.org/[thrift] transport module allows to expose the REST interface of elasticsearch using thrift. Thrift should provide better performance over http. Since thrift provides both the wire protocol and the transport, it should make using Elasticsearch more efficient (though it has limited documentation). Using thrift requires installing the `transport-thrift` plugin, located https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-transport-thrift[here]. The thrift https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-transport-thrift/blob/master/elasticsearch.thrift[schema] can be used to generate thrift clients. [cols="<,<",options="header",] |======================================================================= |Setting |Description |`thrift.port` |The port to bind to. Defaults to 9500-9600 |`thrift.frame` |Defaults to `-1`, which means no framing. Set to a higher value to specify the frame size (like `15mb`). |=======================================================================