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I wonder if this would be a good lightweight alternative to ES for a local development setup. At $work we use ES for deployed environments, but have thus far av
by ochoseis 5y ago
I wonder if this would be a good lightweight alternative to ES for a local development setup. At $work we use ES for deployed environments, but have thus far avoided running it locally because of the resource requirements.
- jillesvangurp 5y agoI have Elasticsearch running in docker most of the time for local development. It's fine. You can run it with as little as half a GB of ram. It won't be using much CPU unless you start throwing millions of documents at it for indexing. Our production cluster uses 2 1GB vms. The whole setup costs us about 60$/month. We have a about 7 million documents indexed in there. People here seem to assume Elasticsearch requires lots of memory and CPU. It actually scales down very nicely in addition to its famous ability to scale up very well. Any decent developer laptop should have no issues running this. Running VS Code is more of a burden on my laptop. And intellij is even worse.