Elasticsearch as a NoSQL Database (2013)

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64 pointsbrasetvik3 comments

Thank you brasetvik! I literally decided to use Elasticsearch in this way this morning for a project but had that "this seems like a great solution given my requirements but what if I'm missing some unknown unknown" feeling. Since I'm starting implementation on this today I appreciate your timing.

Happy to help!

I posted it since NoSQL was a hot topic in the 1.0 thread.

If you're uncovering unknown unknowns, these can also be of interest:

- https://www.found.no/foundation/elasticsearch-in-production/

- https://www.found.no/foundation/elasticsearch-from-the-botto...

We use Elasticsearch as an index in front of Neo4j but also as a NoSQL database. Free-form search is still the big draw for us but treating it as a database has worked really well so far.

There are a few things that bug me about ES (the bulk update API format...). Other than that it's been a big success for us and the found.no blog posts about it were a big help.

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