An amazing search engine
June 06, 2019

An amazing search engine

Gedson Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is being used for multiple purposes in multiple projects: centralized log management, APM, Metrics Collection as a TSDB, and as a replacement for traditional OLAP databases. It provides a high-performance indexing and search engine, which has become an invaluable tool addressing hard problems that would otherwise be very difficult to solve.

Pros

  • Ingress and indexing.
  • Searching.
  • Aggregations.

Cons

  • Aggregations on top of other aggregations.
  • Encryption at rest.
  • Has a performance penalty when using inked documents.
  • It reduced our solutions' time-to-market, as it's very easy to set up.
  • It greatly boosted the user experience with near-instant search results.
Elasticsearch is much easier to set up and maintain. It provides better distributed architecture and fault tolerance, and is much faster searching.
Elasticsearch is so versatile and so easy to set up that it's really a no-brainer including it in most projects as the indexing and search engine components, as well as for analytics and aggregations. It's not so well-suited to be used as the main database, as there's a minor risk of data loss.

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