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Pros of Elasticsearch
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    Powerful api
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    Great search engine
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    Open source
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    Restful
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    Near real-time search
  • 98
    Free
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    Search everything
  • 54
    Easy to get started
  • 45
    Analytics
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    Distributed
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    Fast search
  • 5
    More than a search engine
  • 4
    Awesome, great tool
  • 4
    Great docs
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    Highly Available
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    Easy to scale
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    Nosql DB
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    Document Store
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    Great customer support
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    Intuitive API
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    Reliable
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    Potato
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    Fast
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    Easy setup
  • 2
    Great piece of software
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    Open
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    Scalability
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    Not stable
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    Easy to get hot data
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    Github
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    Elaticsearch
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    Actively developing
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    Responsive maintainers on GitHub
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    Ecosystem
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    Community
Cons of Elasticsearch
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    Resource hungry
  • 6
    Diffecult to get started
  • 5
    Expensive
  • 4
    Hard to keep stable at large scale
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What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).

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