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> Elasticsearch is one of the easiest clustered databases to administrate You seem to have installation confused with administration. Off the top of my head y
by fizx 10y ago
> Elasticsearch is one of the easiest clustered databases to administrate
You seem to have installation confused with administration.
Off the top of my head you forgot security, monitoring, logging config, backups, handling common production issues such as splitbrains, write multiplication, garbage collection snafus, upgrades between versions with questionably compatible internal apis.
Running any database in the cloud is non-trivial, and, running elasticsearch effectively in the cloud is harder than running Zookeeper or Cassandra, for example.
Source: I founded and sold an ElasticSearch hosting company.
- cheald 10y agoMuch of that isn't specific to Elasticsearch; security, backups, logging config, etc is all going to be extremely common across just about every similar product. I didn't say that Elasticsearch was "trivial", I said that it's one of the easiest clustered DBs to administrate. Anything distributed has a whole set of caveats that you have to be aware of and know how to handle, but using managed ES vs hosting your own doesn't really change any of that. My point is that the value-add from AWS' managed ES product is much, much smaller than it might be for other similar products because of the relative ease of administrating ES.
- AznHisoka 10y ago"easiest clustered DBs to administrate" easy + clustered should never be in the same sentence.