Hi Costin, thanks for the fast and detailed response. I don't have much
direct experience with ES though, so I have basically no intuition about
what the possible range of performance would be. Would you happen to have
some useful case studies that could give me some kind of idea? What is
See http://www.elasticsearch.org/case-studies/
There are plenty of use case of organizations from all kind of industries. For IT audience, Github, Wikipedia or
Stackoverflow give some insights into
how ES is used at scale, on large volumes and data and what 'real-time' means.
As for the
I have a question about what near real-time means exactly, in a
quantified way, when described this way on the ES-hadoop home page:
We are happy to report that es-hadoop is being used in multiple
data-intensive environments; in a recent example, a large financial
institute that stores all of
Using the RTC definitions, ES, Hadoop, the JVM and the popular OS
themselves are soft/near real-time systems - so if you are coming
from a hard/firm RT system, you can safely assume that everything (and
again not just ES) is soft. As a tangent, very few systems are hard
RT (ES is neither a nuclear
