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lqdc13
Elastic Search is a wonderful db for storing all sorts of text data.

Having said that, I wonder if there are any plans to make querying more succinct in the future.

Right now you have to write 20+ lines of unintuitive code to make a relatively simple query.

siculars
You know, ElasticSearch and its cousin, Solr, both wrap Lucene. Lucene is not a database, it is an index.
Wonnk13
yea, the Sense browser plugin has made my life a lot easier, but i agree that a relatively sophisticated query/filter + aggregation can be quite a load
quaunaut
GA?
TallGuyShort
General availability. It's a term often used to differentiate between private beta releases, etc.
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tarr11
I'm curious about their business model. It seems like they are a good template for other open source platforms, assuming they are generating revenue and/or profitable.

Does Elastic generate most of their revenue through hosting, support, services, or something else?

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pas
They made a few proprietary apps that support/enhance/empower elasticsearch (marvel - a monitoring/operations dashboard/control panel, shield - security, ACL, authentication, encryption (for compliance) and so on, and watcher - alerting for your data, so you can define queries and thresholds and get alerts, call a webhook, send an email, save it into an index), and you get them bundled with their subscription.

So I'd say support and they have just gotten started with the hosted thing. (Which is probably great for a lot of things, big-ish data, full text search for not so latency sensitive applications - such as traditional websites, but we shall see.)

dang
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371917
binarymax
But this isn't the same thing. The GA is general availability and not a release candidate. The OP link has more relevant data.
dang
If it's the same release I don't see how it doesn't count as a dupe. There aren't enough slots on the front page to have a new thread each time software goes from RC to GA.

If HN users feel strongly about this we're always happy to make exceptions, but we see a lot of incremental release and status-change posts, and most don't count as substantive.