Elasticsearch

also referred to as: elastic search

8 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2017 by Parth Vasa · said 65 times in 25 episodes since 2014 · across every show →

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May 24, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Bloomberg chose Apache Solr over Elasticsearch to maintain open-source control
“One was, we were looking for something that was truly open source, where we had a lot more control over open source and, sorry, source code, and a lot more saying how the direction goes.”
Parth Vasa May 24, 2017 ▶ 13:16 How to Train Your Search Engine // Parth Vasa, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Apr 9, 2018
Disclosure
Braze plans to self-host Elasticsearch on AWS rather than using managed service
“What we're doing is we're going to be running our own Elasticsearch instances ourselves that we can then fully configure and it'll just give us a lot more flexibility.”
Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 16:57 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Dec 5, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Ben Johnson: Timber struggled to scale Elasticsearch past multiple terabytes
“What we found though is that while it was good getting started, we encountered a lot of challenges with it, especially when we started to cross over into the multiple terabyte range. And we had a lot of trouble scaling it.”
Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 2:46 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Dec 5, 2018 negative
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Ben Johnson: Real-time data processing was a major challenge with Elasticsearch
“So being being real-time and processing this data was really important, and that was a real challenge with Elasticsearch.”
Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 4:01 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Dec 5, 2018 neutral
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Ben Johnson: No single storage engine could completely replace Elasticsearch
“What was interesting is that all of these storages have different strengths, but none of them really could just completely replace Elasticsearch.”
Ben Johnson Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 4:19 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Insight
Gourley: Graph joins on Elasticsearch slow text analysis to unusable levels
“If you try and do that on top of, like, an elastic search, you know, your joins that are going to emerge on top of the derived information are going to just slow that thing down to being unusable.”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 16:35 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Nov 13, 2019
Disclosure
Volpi: Index Ventures invested in Elasticsearch one month after discovering it
“The next day I called Elasticsearch. We ended up investing in the company a month later, and then it went public.”
Mike Volpi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 2:52 Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 9, 2023 positive
Opinion
Developers building search should consider Algolia over Elasticsearch
“So, to build search, you don't necessarily need elastic search. You maybe need Algolia. If that's what you're looking for, and you're focusing on building great search, you don't have to build everything around what you need in order to operate a complete sear…”
Jorge Gomez Sancha Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 3:49 Build Fast APIs Faster Over Data at Scale | Tinybird Founder & CEO Jorge Gomez Sancha
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