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The entire backlog of 1.2 million articles are stored in elastic-search, which is used to drive the site Elasticsearch is awesome and I'd heard rumors of peopl
by petercooper 13y ago
The entire backlog of 1.2 million articles are stored in elastic-search, which is used to drive the site
Elasticsearch is awesome and I'd heard rumors of people using it as a data store rather than just a search index but it's awesome to see it being used as a data store at such scale.
- lost_my_pwd 13y agoAt the last place I worked, we used ES for both search and storage of 2.5MM+, and quickly growing, items (the data was also stored in DynamoDB for safety). It worked quite well, saved us some development time, and reduced the latency of search requests a little since there was no 2nd network call to fetch the documents found by ES from separate storage.
- petercooper 13y agoWhat are the basic tradeoffs at that scale? I'm only using it for search at a very low scale but it almost sounds like a dream database if it works well at scale and for canonical storage.