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.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>

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