Hopefully this means that the documentation gets some help, especially some of the official libraries. So far working with ES has been a mixed bag… seems good in theory but I've had a hard time getting over the learning curve.
Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
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#22Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
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#23Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
Do you need something beyond "highly scalable search solution"? A lot of enterprises (and I'd guess startups too!) need good search solutions and your two players in the Java space (that I know of) are Solr and Elasticsearch. We are using Solr in our product, but the more I hear about Elasticsearch the more I want to give it a serious try.
My reason for not using it originally was that we had prototyped our solution using Compass (which was the project before Elasticsearch) only to have it abandoned to work on Elasticsearch. So I was concerned about the "one dev" model and losing something that was a key component of what we needed.
Since then I've not been impressed with SolrCloud (would love to hear good experiences, but it seems their distributed model isn't right) and have been giving Elasticsearch serious thought again.
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#24Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
It's what Solr would look like if you designed it today.
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#25Hopefully this means that the documentation gets some help, especially some of the official libraries. So far working with ES has been a mixed bag… seems good in theory but I've had a hard time getting over the learning curve.
Want to highlight some of your specific pain points?
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#26Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
The clustering Just Works, with autodiscovery via unicast, multicast, Azure API, EC2 API, or Google Compute Engine API.
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#27Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
Do you need something beyond "highly scalable search solution"? A lot of enterprises (and I'd guess startups too!) need good search solutions and your two players in the Java space (that I know of) are Solr and Elasticsearch. We are using Solr in our product, but the more I hear about Elasticsearch the more I want to give it a serious try. My reason for not using it originally was that we had prototyped our solution…
"In the Java space" meaning deployed in a Java servlet container. Both are stand-alone search servers, exposing their API for search and indexing through HTTP using XML and/or JSON.
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#28Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
Something like Google Alerts could be designed easily with elasticsearch. There's probably no other technology (off the shelf) that could be used for an use case like that.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you need something beyond "highly scalable search solution"? A lot of enterprises (and I'd guess startups too!) need good search solutions and your two players in the Java space (that I know of) are Solr and Elasticsearch. We are using Solr in our product, but the more I hear about Elasticsearch the more I want to give it a serious try. My reason for not using it originally was that we had prototyped our solution…
"In the Java space" meaning deployed in a Java servlet container. Both are stand-alone search servers, exposing their API for search and indexing through HTTP using XML and/or JSON.
> "In the Java space" meaning deployed in a Java servlet container.
I didn't say nor mean to imply that. Technically, Solr is based on servlet technology whether stand-alone or not, you can choose to deploy it in a web container of your choice or use the Jetty instance it comes with for the "stand-alone" experience. I don't know much about Elasticsearch's architecture personally.
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#30Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
It's an "it just works" technology that also goes very deep and solves a number of problems where the competing solutions are an order of magnitude more complex and/or expensive.