So the main advantages to ES over Solr that I can think of offhand are the fact that you can store and search on complex JSON documents (that is, documents with nested objects, etc.) making it an effective standalone document database and the fact that it will automatically replicate and shard to other instances using zeroconf.

-Ross.

On Mar 14, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am trying to decide whether we should evaluate it and possibly do a
> Drupal integration.
> 
> I know that this is not a trivial question, but, being lazy, I would like
> to know in what ways it provides services that I can't get from Solr. I
> have looked at the comparo cheatsheet — http://solr-vs-elasticsearch.com
> 
> Cary
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM, MJ Suhonos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Likewise, I've been using it since mid-2010 (0.6.0).  What do you want to
>> know about it?
>> 
>> MJ
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Cary Gordon
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