The best way to think of elasticsearch is as an ever evolving swiss army knife for search. It has support for both traditional search features as well as some advanced features for structured search. For example, elasticsearch aggregations have very little to do with text search but are highly useful for digging through log data and other structured data. I wouldn't worry too much about the marketing, although given the work in particular areas, I would expect a lot more emphasis on things it has recently become much better on (e.g. aggregations, structured search, use as a resilient sharded& replicated document store) rather than stuff it has always done well (i.e. text search).
If you have a small company (like we do) and you are considering to bet the future on a technology like elasticsearch (like we did), it is useful to consider what you expect from the product right now and in the future. I'm now two years into this choice and at the time it was a shaky bet informed in no small part by my previous experience with lucene and solr. In short, I knew what was possible technically, what the limitations were, and which things were being worked on. So, it paid off but a lot of the features we use today did not exist two years ago. In retrospect, our timing was perfect and Elasticsearch seems to have a knack to deliver stuff we need just in time. On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:40:37 AM UTC+1, Gianni Livolsi wrote: > > Elasticsearch is apparently morphing from a traditional enterprise search > engine into a log analytics. I' am planning the future of my small > company > but I want to start in the right direction, that's just my feeling or > actually elasticsearch is changing its marketing strategies?? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/ES-enterprise-search-engine-or-log-analytics-tp4067414.html > > Sent from the ElasticSearch Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/199cca7c-9bd6-4780-9831-db47d51c8d2e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
