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If anyone has used one of the elasticsearch add-ons, I'd love to read a review. Feature request: Allow the reviewer to specify which tiers of service they've u

by cheriot 12y ago

If anyone has used one of the elasticsearch add-ons, I'd love to read a review. Feature request: Allow the reviewer to specify which tiers of service they've used. I want to use elastic on heroku for my side project, but if the $10 plans are as slow as the $10 db plan then I need to decide between dropping heroku and jumping to the $50 db.

m0th87 12y ago
We've used both Bonsai and Found in production with some fairly heavy read loads. They've both been a joy, with better support, stability and pricing than what I'd expect out of other database providers (Redis in particular used to be troublesome for us.)
- mrkurt 12y ago
  Redis is surprisingly difficult to run well. I think most early providers just weren't very sophisticated. The Elasticsearch providers are mostly a new generation.
  - itamarhaber 12y ago
    Depends on the provider - some are doing the same thing they did 2 years ago whereas others keep innovating constantly :)
    - mrkurt 12y ago
      I specifically wasn't thinking about you guys as "early" when I said that. :D
mathgeek 12y ago
I only experienced it secondhand, so I don't feel right leaving a review, but one of the projects I inherited used Bonsai Elasticsearch when I first took it over. We experienced a couple of overnight Bonsai downtimes that were unexpected and brought the site to a halt, so we moved off of them to a pure AWS implementation. Their support during those periods was top notch. From what I hear, they're better now about downtime.
tildedash 12y ago
I have used Bonsai and Searchbox in production (thousand of queries per day and few hundred thousands of documents). I have experienced issues with both of them : * The SSL certificate of Bonsai has expired one day and nobody noticed it before I tweet it to the support team, they fixed it in less than 20 minutes * I had some random downtimes on Searchbox Like mathgeek, I am planning to run my own cluster on AWS EC2 to gain control on my cluster. If you want to test one of these providers anyway, I recommend Bonsai because : * the support team is fast and efficient * the health API (and some others) is available on the cluster (not on Searchbox)

by cheriot 12y ago

m0th87 12y ago

We've used both Bonsai and Found in production with some fairly heavy read loads. They've both been a joy, with better support, stability and pricing than what I'd expect out of other database providers (Redis in particular used to be troublesome for us.)

mrkurt 12y ago
Redis is surprisingly difficult to run well. I think most early providers just weren't very sophisticated. The Elasticsearch providers are mostly a new generation.
- itamarhaber 12y ago
  Depends on the provider - some are doing the same thing they did 2 years ago whereas others keep innovating constantly :)
  - mrkurt 12y ago
    I specifically wasn't thinking about you guys as "early" when I said that. :D

mathgeek 12y ago

I only experienced it secondhand, so I don't feel right leaving a review, but one of the projects I inherited used Bonsai Elasticsearch when I first took it over. We experienced a couple of overnight Bonsai downtimes that were unexpected and brought the site to a halt, so we moved off of them to a pure AWS implementation. Their support during those periods was top notch. From what I hear, they're better now about downtime.

tildedash 12y ago

I have used Bonsai and Searchbox in production (thousand of queries per day and few hundred thousands of documents). I have experienced issues with both of them : * The SSL certificate of Bonsai has expired one day and nobody noticed it before I tweet it to the support team, they fixed it in less than 20 minutes * I had some random downtimes on Searchbox Like mathgeek, I am planning to run my own cluster on AWS EC2 to gain control on my cluster. If you want to test one of these providers anyway, I recommend Bonsai because : * the support team is fast and efficient * the health API (and some others) is available on the cluster (not on Searchbox)