Slides from Costin Leau's talk on Search and Analytics (using Elasticsearch) at the 18th Big Data London meetup

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Search and Analytics
(using Elasticsearch)
Costin Leau

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Why search?

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Search – what’s the big deal?
Basic/Metadata retrieval
“Find banks with more then (x) accounts”

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Search – what’s the big deal?
Basic/Metadata retrieval
“Find banks near my location”

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Search – What we’re all about

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Search categories
Basic/Metadata retrieval
Full-text search
Highlighting
Geolocation
Fuzzy search (“did-you-mean”)
Natural Language

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Search categories
Basic/Metadata retrieval
Full-text search
Highlighting
Geolocation
Fuzzy search (“did-you-mean”)
Natural Language
data stores
search engines

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‘Players’ in the search market
Search engines
- Google/Bing/Yahoo!/Ask.com/Yandex/Baidu
Open-Source
- Sphinx
- Apache Lucene
- Elasticsearch
- Solr
- Sensei
Enterprise Search
- Oracle Endeca / MDEX
- HP Autonomy
- Exalead
- IBM Enterprise Search

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Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch
Open-Source Search & Analytics engine
- Structured & Unstructured Data
- Real Time
- Analytics capabilities (facets)
- REST based
Distributed
- Designed for the Cloud
- Designed for Big Data

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Elasticsearch
Open-Source Search & Analytics engine
- Structured & Unstructured Data
- Real Time
- Analytics capabilities (facets)
- REST based
Distributed
- Designed for the Cloud
- Designed for Big Data
Lightweight

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Elasticsearch
Open-Source Search & Analytics engine
- Structured & Unstructured Data
- Real Time
- Analytics capabilities (facets)
- REST based
Distributed
- Designed for the Cloud
- Designed for Big Data
Lightweight
Popular: >200K downloads/month

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Users

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Users

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Platform Adoption
http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar#platforms 2013

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Platform Adoption
http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar#platforms 2013

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Use Case - Text Search
https://github.com/blog/1381-a-whole-new-code-search

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Searches 50,000,000 venues every day using
Elasticsearch
Use Case - Geolocation

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Use Case – Support/Reporting

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Use Case - Centralized Logging

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Use Case - Pure Analytics

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Search and Big Data

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A Holistic View of a Big Data System
ETL
Real
Time
Streams
Unstructured Data (HDFS)
RT Semi
structured
Database
(hBase,
Cassandra,
Mongo)
Big SQL
(Greenplum,
AsterData,
Etc…)
Batch
ProcessingReal-Time
Processing
(s4, storm)
Analytics

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A Holistic View of a Big Data System
ETL
Real
Time
Streams
Unstructured Data (HDFS)
RT Semi
structured
Database
(hBase,
Cassandra,
Mongo)
Big SQL
(Greenplum,
AsterData,
Etc…)
Batch
Processing
Analytics
Real-Time
Processing
(s4, storm)

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Hadoop eco-system
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Map Reduce Framework (MapRed)

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Hadoop eco-system
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Map Reduce Framework (MapRed)

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Elasticsearch + Hadoop
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M/R Pig Hive
Raw w/ ES
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M/R Pig Hive
Raw w/ ES
Writing Reading / Querying

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Explore data through
(Elastic)Search

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Thank you!
@costinl
http://www.elasticsearch.org/