Re: alternating hits totals for subsequent requests

2014-02-06 Thread Craig Lebowitz
Take a look at the 'preference' property of the search request body. If you use the user's session id as a custom string, it should prevent the jumping around of values. Docs: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-preference.html Jörg recently me

Re: May I use ES as DB to replace MongoDB?

2014-01-16 Thread Craig Lebowitz
I was talking about using ES as a system of record with my friendly IT director today. We were brainstorming about how 'backup" would work. The lucene index is immutable, so we can think about ES data as a transaction log. We can recreate from _source at a given time with a scan/scroll archiv