Elasticsearch is an Open Source (Apache 2), Distributed, RESTful, Search Engine built on top of Lucene.

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How does Elastic Search approach the problem of distributed membership and consensus?

I already understand that Elastic Search is supposed to be deployed in a distributed topology, in that you can have multiple nodes for a cluster of ES instances. I like the API, and it looks ...
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Google-like search solution for an enterprise application stack using Elasticsearch

I know, title is a little confusing but the problem is, too. I am working on a company, it has several different applications and wants these applications have search functionality. We have developed ...
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Are NoSQL databases the best choice for more efficiently querying large amounts of data?

We are planning to build a travel website in which we will be integrating multiple APIs (eg. DOTW, GTA, Expedia) for Hotels. I have initially tried to use MySQL but since there are huge amounts of ...
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Syncing different nosql datasources efficiently

I have two dbs I am dealing with right now - Elasticsearch and Mongodb. Mongodb is legacy in the application in that I am not happy for its presence but it is there and in use, I am interested in ...
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Why would I use ElasticSearch if I already use a graph database?

I don't find any deep explanation on the web about a comparison between ElasticSearch and the graph databases. Both are optimized to traverse data. ElasticSearch seems to be optimized for analytics. ...