Elasticsearch as a database

David G Ortega

Hi, I have seen that NodeBB has a Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL), I wonder if you guys have ever thought of implementing Elasticsearch a DB, if not... I'm doing it!

julian

Elasticsearch is a search engine isn't it? I don't know if it works quite as well as a data store for NodeBB

David G Ortega

It works, I have used it to store documents as a NoSQL db, it's a Document search engine and in fact lucene is extremely good as a key/value storage. I have never missed documents in Elasticsearch... in Mongo... well... so many times to never use it again...

julian

Interesting... please do let us know how you get on, and whether you need help overcoming any stumbling blocks building your DBAL adapter

trulore

Minor FYI....Elasticsearch has made a strong stand that they are not a database. There are certain levels of consistency and reliability to qualify as a database that they have said they cannot support. But if your data isn't critical, and you don't mind a noticeable a delay between when you write a document and when it available for reading, then that's fine.