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I'm always excited to read about Elasticsearch being used for something besides logs! We have built quite the powerful realtime streaming big data platform wher
by jonaf 10y ago
I'm always excited to read about Elasticsearch being used for something besides logs! We have built quite the powerful realtime streaming big data platform where I work (Bazaarvoice), and we use Elasticsearch heavily.
I was recently at an Elasticsearch meetup hosted by HomeAway and pleased to see that may of the patterns that emerged at Bazaarvoice were generally repeated in HomeAway's deployment. I definitely encourage anyone considering Elasticsearch to explore its utility for more than just logging. So many times I read about or hear folks using Elasticsearch to index "billions of documents!!" only to find that only a few million documents are actually in an open index.
Does anyone know of any heavy users of Elasticsearch for non-logging workloads in AWS? So far it seems like most of these folks are running out of a colo or their own data center. I've been running Elasticsearch in AWS for a few years now and simply can't imagine dealing with the inconvenience of managing the hardware down to the specific number of nodes. (If you asked me, I'd say I don't know how many nodes -- lots!)
- lateguy 10y agoI agree with you. I work for Education company Accredible. We use Elasticsearch hosted on AWS for employment directory based on student data. It's working perfectly for us from last one year, very happy with it.