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Explain elasticsearch - pros and cons

Anton Zobnin on August 04, 2017

Hi, I'm working with search in my work project right now and I'm stuck on thoughts about the best way of its' realisation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There wil...
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lukaszkuczynski •

It depends on what do you want to store there.. If the data model is relational and text that can be found inside are only keywords like

{
    "env_name": "dev",
    "user_name": "luk"
}

.. then you probably can use any of real DB.
If you want to see the good coming from Search Engine that ES is indeed, you will think how to query you text with fulltext search queries, looking how relevant information is to you:

{
   "blogger_name": "me",
   "content": "this is text with keywords that's gonna to be searched and boosted according to the needs"
}