G2

Keith L.

Chief Technology Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2015

"NoSQL search everything technology"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elasticsearch?

I was playing around with Couchbase and I saw the plugin with Elasticsearch. It was pretty easy to install based on a JVM and connected easily to Couchbase. Suddenly, we could search all our data with one huge reverse index. Of course, you do need to refine your queries, but it proved so powerful, right out of the gate. The developer community also seems quite strong, and since it is RESTful it can serve many environments. I have been using NEST to connect from .Net server. Cluster seems very resilient when nodes drop, and indexes new data very fast, and also queries very fast. Marvel Sense provides a nice intellisense to write your DSL queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elasticsearch?

Though you can monitor the cluster from RESTful queries, you have to use either the head plugin or the marvel plugin to monitor the cluster. Whenever you change your schema, you have to reindex your data which is basically reloading all your data. Though it seems like it could be a permanent data store, the Elasticsearch people say it should not be trusted to be a permanent data store. I have reloaded my indexes many times, due to schema changes, so it is just as well. Security is also an option you only get with the enterprise version. Otherwise it is completely open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elasticsearch:

The first thing you need to do is turn your data into JSON objects. It does not matter at first if you get the JSON design correct, since Elasticsearch allows for an iterative development process. Just dive in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elasticsearch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted a very flexible and open way to search our data. We felt hemmed in by SQL queries and a fixed schema, and Elasticsearch has realized our vision of a very open ended search of our data, and it is super fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.