managing snapshots

I'm investigating snapshots and came across some things that aren't clear in the docs. My understanding is that the snapshots are incremental and only transfer things that were changed since the last snapshot. (Is that shards, lucene stuff, something else ???) One thing that isn't clear is

running on EC2 S3 vs EBS

We've begun deploying to AWS EC2. I've seen refrences in the group about the S3 gateway and it being deprecated. That seems to be confirmed by looking at the docs, which don't seem to list the S3 Gateway specifically after 0.90.x. We are also using the elasticsearch-cloud-aws plugins

Re: filtered alias and possible options for forcing filters for queries

31, 2014 7:07:02 PM UTC+1, Matthias Johnson wrote: In our application we have the need to restrict access to data. We would like to use filters for that. The filtered aliashttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html seems like a nice way

term vs terms filter

I'm filtering on terms. it seems that there are 2 choices: term filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-term-filter.htmland terms filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-terms-filter.html . In my case I

Re: term vs terms filter

Thanks Binh. Out of curiosity do you know of performance differences between the 2 choices? it would seem that the terms filter with it's caching may provide better performance? \@matthias On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:34:50 AM UTC-7, Binh Ly wrote: Mathias, you're correct in your