On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 20:50 -0700, Tech Id wrote: > Being a long term Solr user, I tried to do a little comparison myself > and actually found some interesting features in ES. > > 1. No zookeeper - I have burnt my hands with some zookeeper issues > in the past and it is no fun to deal with. Kafka and Storm are also > trying to burden zookeeper less and less because ZK cannot handle > heavy traffic.
ZooKeeper is not the easiest beast to tame, but it does have its plusses. The greatest being that it is pretty good at what it does: https://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper Home-cooked distribution systems might be a lot easier to use, primarily because they tend to be a perfect fit for the technology they support, but they are hard to get right: https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0 > 2. REST APIs - this is a big wow over the complicated syntax Solr > uses. I think V2 APIs are coming to address this, but they did come a > bit late in the game. I guess you mean JSON APIs? Anyway, I fully agree that the old Solr syntax is extremely clunky as soon as we move beyond the simple "just supply a few search terms"-scenario. - Toke Eskildsen, Royal Danish Library
