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Elasticsearch vs TensorFlow: What are the differences?

  1. Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene. It is designed for horizontal scalability, allowing for rapid indexing, searching, and analysis of large volumes of data in near real-time. Elasticsearch processes unstructured data and provides powerful search capabilities through a RESTful API. It is commonly used for log analytics, full-text search, and data exploration.

  2. TensorFlow: TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google. It provides a comprehensive ecosystem of tools, libraries, and resources for building and deploying machine learning models. TensorFlow allows for the efficient training and inference of deep neural networks across a variety of platforms and devices. It supports both research and production workflows, enabling developers and researchers to experiment, optimize, and deploy machine learning models at scale.

  3. Scalability and Use Case: Elasticsearch is specifically designed for horizontal scalability and real-time search, making it a suitable choice for applications that require quick indexing, searching, and analysis of large volumes of textual or structured data. On the other hand, TensorFlow is focused on machine learning and deep learning tasks, providing extensive support for training and deploying machine learning models on different platforms and devices. It is commonly used for tasks such as image recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis.

  4. Data Processing: Elasticsearch is optimized for processing unstructured data, such as logs, documents, and textual data. It offers powerful text analysis features, including tokenization, stemming, and entity recognition, which enable efficient search and analysis of textual content. In contrast, TensorFlow operates on structured and numerical data, allowing for mathematical computations, matrix operations, and efficient processing of large-scale numerical datasets.

  5. Model Development and Training: TensorFlow provides a high-level API and a flexible computational graph abstraction that allows developers to define, train, and fine-tune machine learning models with ease. It offers a wide range of pre-built neural network layers and models, as well as different optimization algorithms for model training. Elasticsearch, on the other hand, does not offer built-in model development and training capabilities but focuses on indexing, searching, and analysis of data.

  6. Integration and Ecosystem: Elasticsearch integrates well with a variety of data storage and analytics tools, including Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark. It provides a rich set of APIs and libraries for interacting with various programming languages and frameworks. TensorFlow, on the other hand, has a strong integration with the Python programming language and offers extensive support for popular machine learning libraries and frameworks, such as Keras and Scikit-learn.

In summary, Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine optimized for real-time search and analysis of unstructured data, while TensorFlow is a machine learning framework focused on developing and deploying machine learning models. Elasticsearch excels in indexing and searching large volumes of textual data, while TensorFlow provides advanced machine learning capabilities and supports model development, training, and deployment.

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Rana Usman Shahid
Chief Technology Officer at TechAvanza · | 6 upvotes · 385.8K views
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Hey everybody! (1) I am developing an android application. I have data of around 3 million record (less than a TB). I want to save that data in the cloud. Which company provides the best cloud database services that would suit my scenario? It should be secured, long term useable, and provide better services. I decided to use Firebase Realtime database. Should I stick with Firebase or are there any other companies that provide a better service?

(2) I have the functionality of searching data in my app. Same data (less than a TB). Which search solution should I use in this case? I found Elasticsearch and Algolia search. It should be secure and fast. If any other company provides better services than these, please feel free to suggest them.

Thank you!

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Josh Dzielak
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Hi Rana, good question! From my Firebase experience, 3 million records is not too big at all, as long as the cost is within reason for you. With Firebase you will be able to access the data from anywhere, including an android app, and implement fine-grained security with JSON rules. The real-time-ness works perfectly. As a fully managed database, Firebase really takes care of everything. The only thing to watch out for is if you need complex query patterns - Firestore (also in the Firebase family) can be a better fit there.

To answer question 2: the right answer will depend on what's most important to you. Algolia is like Firebase is that it is fully-managed, very easy to set up, and has great SDKs for Android. Algolia is really a full-stack search solution in this case, and it is easy to connect with your Firebase data. Bear in mind that Algolia does cost money, so you'll want to make sure the cost is okay for you, but you will save a lot of engineering time and never have to worry about scale. The search-as-you-type performance with Algolia is flawless, as that is a primary aspect of its design. Elasticsearch can store tons of data and has all the flexibility, is hosted for cheap by many cloud services, and has many users. If you haven't done a lot with search before, the learning curve is higher than Algolia for getting the results ranked properly, and there is another learning curve if you want to do the DevOps part yourself. Both are very good platforms for search, Algolia shines when buliding your app is the most important and you don't want to spend many engineering hours, Elasticsearch shines when you have a lot of data and don't mind learning how to run and optimize it.

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Rana - we use Cloud Firestore at our startup. It handles many million records without any issues. It provides you the same set of features that the Firebase Realtime Database provides on top of the indexing and security trims. The only thing to watch out for is to make sure your Cloud Functions have proper exception handling and there are no infinite loop in the code. This will be too costly if not caught quickly.

For search; Algolia is a great option, but cost is a real consideration. Indexing large number of records can be cost prohibitive for most projects. Elasticsearch is a solid alternative, but requires a little additional work to configure and maintain if you want to self-host.

Hope this helps.

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Decisions about Elasticsearch and TensorFlow
Xi Huang
Developer at University of Toronto · | 8 upvotes · 94.2K views

For data analysis, we choose a Python-based framework because of Python's simplicity as well as its large community and available supporting tools. We choose PyTorch over TensorFlow for our machine learning library because it has a flatter learning curve and it is easy to debug, in addition to the fact that our team has some existing experience with PyTorch. Numpy is used for data processing because of its user-friendliness, efficiency, and integration with other tools we have chosen. Finally, we decide to include Anaconda in our dev process because of its simple setup process to provide sufficient data science environment for our purposes. The trained model then gets deployed to the back end as a pickle.

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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
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    Free
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    Search everything
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    Easy to get started
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    Analytics
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    Distributed
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    Fast search
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    More than a search engine
  • 4
    Great docs
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    Awesome, great tool
  • 3
    Highly Available
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    Easy to scale
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    Potato
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    Document Store
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    Great customer support
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    Intuitive API
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    Nosql DB
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    Great piece of software
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    Reliable
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    Fast
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    Easy setup
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    Open
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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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    Not stable
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    Scalability
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    Community
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    High Performance
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    Connect Research and Production
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    Deep Flexibility
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    Auto-Differentiation
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    True Portability
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    Easy to use
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    High level abstraction
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    Powerful

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Cons of Elasticsearch
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    Resource hungry
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    Diffecult to get started
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    Expensive
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    Hard to keep stable at large scale
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    Hard
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    Hard to debug
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    Documentation not very helpful

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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).

What is TensorFlow?

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API.

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