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Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA released

49 points by SuperKlaus 11y ago

lqdc13 11y ago
Elastic Search is a wonderful db for storing all sorts of text data. Having said that, I wonder if there are any plans to make querying more succinct in the future. Right now you have to write 20+ lines of unintuitive code to make a relatively simple query.
- siculars 11y ago
  You know, ElasticSearch and its cousin, Solr, both wrap Lucene. Lucene is not a database, it is an index.
- sciurus 11y ago
  Maybe something like the SQL interface in Solr? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Parallel+SQL+Interface https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Parallel+SQ...
  - kodablah 11y ago
    There is a great plugin for Elasticsearch that translates SQL into Elastic queries also [1]. I am unsure if it supports this new major version though. 1 - https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/ https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/
- Wonnk13 11y ago
  yea, the Sense browser plugin has made my life a lot easier, but i agree that a relatively sophisticated query/filter + aggregation can be quite a load
quaunaut 11y ago
GA?
- TallGuyShort 11y ago
  General availability. It's a term often used to differentiate between private beta releases, etc.
- deleted 11y ago
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tarr11 11y ago
I'm curious about their business model. It seems like they are a good template for other open source platforms, assuming they are generating revenue and/or profitable. Does Elastic generate most of their revenue through hosting, support, services, or something else?
- deleted 11y ago
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- pas 11y ago
  They made a few proprietary apps that support/enhance/empower elasticsearch (marvel - a monitoring/operations dashboard/control panel, shield - security, ACL, authentication, encryption (for compliance) and so on, and watcher - alerting for your data, so you can define queries and thresholds and get alerts, call a webhook, send an email, save it into an index), and you get them bundled with their subscription. So I'd say support and they have just gotten started with the hosted thing. (Which is probably great for a lot of things, big-ish data, full text search for not so latency sensitive applications - such as traditional websites, but we shall see.)
dang 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371917
- binarymax 11y ago
  But this isn't the same thing. The GA is general availability and not a release candidate. The OP link has more relevant data.
  - dang 11y ago
    If it's the same release I don't see how it doesn't count as a dupe. There aren't enough slots on the front page to have a new thread each time software goes from RC to GA. If HN users feel strongly about this we're always happy to make exceptions, but we see a lot of incremental release and status-change posts, and most don't count as substantive.
    - jasontedor 11y ago
      Jason from Elastic here. It wasn't the same release as there were critical changes[1] between the RC and the GA, and the RC release will receive no support. [1] https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-2-0-0 https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch...
evantahler 11y ago
Documents are now fsynced to disk before indexing requests are acknowledged making writes durable-by-default. Will this solve the problems noted by Ayphr? https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch Great progress!
mdaniel 11y ago
Wow, and the whole family got a makeover: https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-2-0 https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-2-0 https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-2-0-0-released https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-2-0-0-released https://www.elastic.co/blog/sense-2-0-0-beta1 https://www.elastic.co/blog/sense-2-0-0-beta1 My major congratulations to the ES team! (and thank you for my stickers :-) )

49 points by SuperKlaus 11y ago

Elastic Search is a wonderful db for storing all sorts of text data. Having said that, I wonder if there are any plans to make querying more succinct in the future. Right now you have to write 20+ lines of unintuitive code to make a relatively simple query.

siculars 11y ago
You know, ElasticSearch and its cousin, Solr, both wrap Lucene. Lucene is not a database, it is an index.
sciurus 11y ago
Maybe something like the SQL interface in Solr? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Parallel+SQL+Interface https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Parallel+SQ...
- kodablah 11y ago
  There is a great plugin for Elasticsearch that translates SQL into Elastic queries also [1]. I am unsure if it supports this new major version though. 1 - https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/ https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/
Wonnk13 11y ago
yea, the Sense browser plugin has made my life a lot easier, but i agree that a relatively sophisticated query/filter + aggregation can be quite a load

quaunaut 11y ago

GA?

TallGuyShort 11y ago
General availability. It's a term often used to differentiate between private beta releases, etc.
deleted 11y ago
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tarr11 11y ago

I'm curious about their business model. It seems like they are a good template for other open source platforms, assuming they are generating revenue and/or profitable. Does Elastic generate most of their revenue through hosting, support, services, or something else?

deleted 11y ago
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pas 11y ago
They made a few proprietary apps that support/enhance/empower elasticsearch (marvel - a monitoring/operations dashboard/control panel, shield - security, ACL, authentication, encryption (for compliance) and so on, and watcher - alerting for your data, so you can define queries and thresholds and get alerts, call a webhook, send an email, save it into an index), and you get them bundled with their subscription. So I'd say support and they have just gotten started with the hosted thing. (Which is probably great for a lot of things, big-ish data, full text search for not so latency sensitive applications - such as traditional websites, but we shall see.)

dang 11y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371917

binarymax 11y ago
But this isn't the same thing. The GA is general availability and not a release candidate. The OP link has more relevant data.
- dang 11y ago
  If it's the same release I don't see how it doesn't count as a dupe. There aren't enough slots on the front page to have a new thread each time software goes from RC to GA. If HN users feel strongly about this we're always happy to make exceptions, but we see a lot of incremental release and status-change posts, and most don't count as substantive.
  - jasontedor 11y ago
    Jason from Elastic here. It wasn't the same release as there were critical changes[1] between the RC and the GA, and the RC release will receive no support. [1] https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-2-0-0 https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch...

evantahler 11y ago

Documents are now fsynced to disk before indexing requests are acknowledged making writes durable-by-default. Will this solve the problems noted by Ayphr? https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch Great progress!

mdaniel 11y ago

Wow, and the whole family got a makeover: https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-2-0 https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-2-0 https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-2-0-0-released https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-2-0-0-released https://www.elastic.co/blog/sense-2-0-0-beta1 https://www.elastic.co/blog/sense-2-0-0-beta1 My major congratulations to the ES team! (and thank you for my stickers :-) )