Elastic Search - Incorporated(elasticsearch.com)
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Elastic Search - Incorporated
http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/you-know-for-search-inc/
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I agree, ES is awesome. The poor documentation can be annoying indeed, but Shay Banon is always very helpful on the discussion groups so that's a big plus.
+1 on this, a better side bar or something on docs would be wonderful, but the tech just rules. The ease of setting up a redundant cluster is great, not to mention the just insane response speed. We switched a few page loads from mongodb to elastic search, mongo was taking ~13000 ms per page load, elastic took ~250 (2 mm records).
Awesome news from a truly awesome developer working on fantastically awesome software.
Did I mention it is awesome?
If you haven't had a chance to play around with ES - you really should. I've never used Lucene or Solr but I picked up the basics of ES really quickly. You can roll out some really impressive search capabilities with embarrassingly little code (or knowledge).
Just this last weekend I migrated servers and syncing my new server was as easy as installing ES, joining the cluster and letting everything transfer over automatically. ElasticSearch comes as close to "magic" as possible, especially for something as sophisticated as search.
Did I mention it is awesome?
If you haven't had a chance to play around with ES - you really should. I've never used Lucene or Solr but I picked up the basics of ES really quickly. You can roll out some really impressive search capabilities with embarrassingly little code (or knowledge).
Just this last weekend I migrated servers and syncing my new server was as easy as installing ES, joining the cluster and letting everything transfer over automatically. ElasticSearch comes as close to "magic" as possible, especially for something as sophisticated as search.
Shay works like mad on this project, it's awesome to see this for him and the rest of people working together on it. I've been on the ES mailing list for a number of months now and not a single question goes by without an involved response from Shay, helping people out every day.
Congrats to all involved.
Congrats to all involved.
Great news. I discovered ES last year and fell in love with it. Far better than solr in almost every aspect. When I saw how automatically detects nodes, distributes data, recovers from a failed node, etc. all without administration I could not believe it. It's every devops dream.
Also, don't forget to check the ecosystem around elasticsearch: clients, integration, Puppet & Chef manifests/recipes, etc: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/appendix/clients.html
Yay for them. It's a great story - from one guy working on an idea to a company.
Been using elasticsearch for a number of projects and all I can say is that it's really great! We almost replaced it on one large project to use it as a distributed storage but didn't work out cause it couldn't handle the load. (not surprising since that's not what it's exactly built for..)
However, as a search solution, elasticsearch is one of the best I've used this far (used solr, sphinx and fulltext search).
Hope this means that great things are to come! :)
However, as a search solution, elasticsearch is one of the best I've used this far (used solr, sphinx and fulltext search).
Hope this means that great things are to come! :)
I've just started getting into Elastic Search for a project I'm working on. Coming from a couple of years using Solr it is one of the best and most exciting pieces of tech I've played with in ages.
I hope this announcement doesn't change anything (at least not too much!).
I hope this announcement doesn't change anything (at least not too much!).
I'm happy to see this! I wish them well. Also, I'm looking forward to their training course: http://www.elasticsearch.com/services/training/
We use ES at Wildbit. I love this tool, and I'm really glad for you guys.
6 months ago when we started using it, we'd have easily hired you guys to help us out with our use cases/jvm optimization.
6 months ago when we started using it, we'd have easily hired you guys to help us out with our use cases/jvm optimization.
Announcement blog post: http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/you-know-for-search-inc/
The only downside we've hit with ES is poor documentation. In all other respects, if you need search, I can unconditionally recommend it.