Thanks. We have 300 TB of data, average size of document stored is 512KB. Just want to make sure that using ES as primary data store I'm not missing anything. >From your response it looks to me like durability isn't a concern with ES.
Thanks Pranav. On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:53:52 AM UTC-4, mooky wrote: > > What do you mean by "durability"? > > Its highly likely that elastic has the same storage guarantees that > cassandra does. > That said, some people like to have the flexibility of having the golden > source elsewhere and the ability to blow away the index & re-index at a > whim. > There are a number of elastic users, however, where this is not viable - > where reindexing their volume of data would take a week or 2. > > How much data are you looking at storing/indexing? Mb? Gb? Tb? Pb? > > -M > > > > On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:27:15 UTC+1, pranav amin wrote: >> >> Thanks Tim. >> >> Does that mean i can't get durability if i store my data in ES as a >> primary data store? >> >> Thanks >> Pranav. >> >> On Monday, July 14, 2014 11:57:23 PM UTC-4, Tim Uckun wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm just confused if Cassandra can really make a difference here, since >>>> looks to me ES can suffice here. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> If you are not going to be using Cassandra for indexing then there is no >>> reason to have it. If you want durability in case something goes wrong with >>> ES you can just store your data in a log file before pumping it into ES. >>> If for whatever reason something happens to your ES cluster you can >>> reconstruct it using the log files. >>> >>> >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fad94a5b-2378-4088-98f1-abb4366be230%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
