Elastic Search Scalability

Saurav Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India


It is scalable. We have multiple NGINX nodes and use horizontal scaling to handle traffic. Our system can handle the Indian UPI settlement and process sixty-seven thousand requests per second.
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Randy Sanchez - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at High Key Consulting llc

It is quite scalable.

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Oleksii Pavlyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of the direction of ensuring the security of digital systems, electronic databases and networks at Ukreximbank

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. 

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April 2024
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Dave Ezrakhovich - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineering at WiseTech Global

It is a scalable tool, but it's not impressive. The challenge arises when scaling out becomes prohibitively expensive. Instead of offering end-users the flexibility to specify the number of instances, there's a tendency to provide preconfigured packages. This approach may not be ideal, particularly for those seeking smaller scale-ups.

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Atif Tariq - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud and Big Data Engineer | Developer at Huawei Cloud Middle East

In our organization, it's not so much about the number of people as it is about the number of products utilizing it. Currently, we use Elasticsearch in more than 12 products. 

It's become essential for any component that requires text-based functionality. Besides that, it's also used for logging to analyze application performance, peak times, etc. Elasticsearch is a basic component of the architecture for each of these products.

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Rodolfo Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at Banco do Brasil S.A.

It's scalable in the sense of pods or quantity or numbers of requests, yet not so scalable when considering persistence. We can't handle too much long-term data.

We have at least 500 people using the solution right now.

As a bank, we have some constraints around using and adding new tools. It's very difficult to change stacks. Therefore, we have no plans to stop using the solution anytime soon. 

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Türker Kara - PeerSpot reviewer
Application & Software Architect at Turkiye Finans Participation Bank

It is scalable. It's not a problem if you need to expand it. 

We have about 20 people using the solution right now. We're using it in a test environment right now. Once we deploy to production, 300 to 400 people will use it. 

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PO
Relationship Manager at Snapnet Ltd
It is a scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. View full review »
Walter Renzo Muñoz Arellano - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Archietect at Simi.OS

Elastic Enterprise Search is scalable. On a scale of one to 10, with one being not scalable and 10 being very scalable, I give Elastic Enterprise Search a 10. 

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TS
Senior Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The solution is definitely scalable and that is one of the reasons we moved from Grafana. We use Spring Boot but the Spring Actuator's micrometer does not scale properly and is very slow. The solution can scale and manage all our monitoring needs in one place. 

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Enrique Peragallo - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Andes Tecnología y Consultoría Ltda.

It is a scalable solution. 70 people are working with this solution in the project, 35 on the development team and 20 backend people. We are working on the development, but it's part of the service that the Indian company has to provide. There are about 50 people on their development team who deal with all the development, infrastructure implementation, architecture definition and implementation of the software stack. We are the counterpart of that company.

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DA
Executive VP Operation Aqua + South East Asia at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Everything is managed by Amazon AWS, making Elastic Enterprise Search highly scalable.

We have approximately eight engineers using this solution in my company.

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Anshuman Kishore - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Product Development at Mycom Osi

It's a scalable solution. We can expand it if needed. We have 50 to 60 users on the solution right now. We do not have plans to increase usage at this time. 

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BM
Operations Manager at Cairo 3A for Agricultural and Animal Production

The scalability of Elastic Enterprise Search is good.

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TM
IBM MQ Specialist / Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I am using Elastic Enterprise Search on-premise and it cannot scale. However, they do have a cloud option.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my organization. We use it on a daily basis.

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Oscar Narvaez - PeerSpot reviewer
COE Head at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a product that can scale well. It's not a problem. 

We have maybe 200 people on the product right now. 

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AG
Engineering Manager at MaisTODOS

The tool's scalability is tied to your infrastructure. You need to have the money and resources to scale your infrastructure. To scale up, you need faster disks and more servers.  My company has 15 users for the product. 

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Markos Sellis - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is very good.

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RH
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We encountered issues with scalability.

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Huseyin Temucin - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Neokod ARGE Yazılım Ltd.Şti.

The solution provides powerful scalability. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. Our clients are medium-sized businesses.

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OC
Domain Specialist Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

More than 50 users are using the solution in our organization.

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UW
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We're in the very early stages of usage. We only have maybe 20 people on the solution currently. We are increasing this, however. There will be more.

The solution is easy to scale. You can add new Elasticsearch clusters. It should be noted that you have to separate the different roles from Elasticsearch to other devices, so you need a little bit more knowledge to do it right.

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KB
Chief Data Scientist at Everlytics Data Science Pte Ltd

Elasticsearch by itself is 100% scalable as scalability is built into the design like any Big Data system. We just have to add more nodes, and it scales horizontally and then redistributes the data into the new nodes, and the cluster becomes faster and agile automatically. Cross-cluster replication comes with a Platinum license. But this feature is highly exceptional and not a common need.

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LK
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution has great scalability. We started with one node, then went to three nodes, as recommended by Elastic. We then found ourselves with seven nodes, and eventually 11 nodes. Then we said, "Wait a minute, this is not going well because we keep adding data and running out of storage." That's when we decided to start dropping data after three months. 

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DE
Cyber Security Professional at Defensive Cyber Security Center Germany

It is a very scalable soluton. It is very easy and I would recommend it to anyone. In terms of users it's all tiered. Most things are from tier zero at egress point of any major large-scale network all the way down to the customer. We have roughly 200 users. And those would include analysts and real time threat analysts. 

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RK
Solutions Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 1-10 employees

It is a highly scalable application. We have 15 users in our management team. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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Shashi Vardhan Andem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

As far as what we could accomplish, it was scalable, but we didn't have a lot of data that needed to be processed. We had 10,000 records and it was scalable.

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Aria Amini - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Behsazan Mellat

The solution is easily scalable.

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ME
Owner and CEO at Karmasis

For a one-node installation, it is easy. You can do it and retrieve information fast, but when you are trying to scale up, everything becomes complicated. If you want to deal with several terabytes of data, you should read whitepapers or case studies or get proper consultancy from Elasticsearch. Otherwise, you will lose data. I know many customers who lost their data and could not recover it. It is not like you store everything and search for everything, and it is just instant. It is not like that. You should do your homework very intensively. It looks easy, but when you scale up, it gets complicated.

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Subhadip Pakrashi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Kapstone Technological Services LLP

The product is scalable, and I rate it a ten out of ten. My company has three users. We use it regularly. 

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FF
Business Intelligence at UTE

If you use a cloud platform or a cloud environment, it is easy to scale. 

For on-premises, we are using OpenShift. We are using a cluster on OpenShift, and we are facing some issues, but they are not related to Elastic. They are related to our infrastructure of OpenShift because OpenShift is deployed on VMware, and the storage of VMware doesn't allow us to take backup snapshots in a secure way. We are thinking of migrating this cluster of OpenShift to another platform.

Currently, we have a few users of this product because we have been using it only for one year, and we are the first ones in our company. In the future, we will have more people involved with the product.

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ED
Owner & director at Pulsar ICT

The scalability of the product is good. It's our key system that generates alerts and does surveillance on a security level. This product is extensively used in our organization.

We have people of course, from the server team that makes sure that the logs get collected. And then we have the people that actually deal with the configuration of the ELK as well. That is a team of five or six people that we use now. Then, of course, we have all the teams that follow up on the alerts, and there, I would say, we have two or three different teams, which is between 10 and 20 people. That's just part of the people that work with the solution.

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VA
Security Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Elastic Enterprise Search is scalable. In our environment, we deploy it in a containerized environment. For us, we've experienced the scalability of the solution because as we grow and expand, we spin up more containers that are interconnected. I don't see any issues with Elastic Enterprise Search from a scalability perspective. 

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Sudeera Mudugamuwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I rate Elastic Search's scalability a ten out of ten. 

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it_user779379 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The product is highly scalable, especially on the database side (elasticserach).

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CN
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution is quite scalable and this is one of its advantages. We are trying to add or plug on to Elasticsearch at present.

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KR
Head of Technology Operations at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

It's scalable, but there are some limitations.

If you are scaling a bit too quickly, you tend to break the applications into different indexes. 

The limitations come in when getting the correlation between the applications or the logs.

It is difficult to get the correlations once the indexes have been split.

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it_user1415322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at sectecs

The scalability is fine.

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HT
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable solution, we have eight to 10 users. We had initially planned to expand use of ELK because of its cheap price and the services that are included, but given the difficulty with implementation we've decided to go with Nagios instead. 

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Sudeera Mudugamuwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

ELK Elasticsearch is a scalable product

This solution is used by five to ten people in our organization.

ELK Elasticsearch is used on a daily basis.

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it_user963378 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at S7

Elasticsearch is very scalable. This was one of the most important points of our decision. We use Elasticsearch with about 1000 users. Now have two sets of solutions:

  • One set works with the dashboard from the project team's site.
  • A second set works with the enterprise department involved with two roles. 

As for the staff, we have an infrastructure team dedicated to Search. I can't answer quickly how many people we use for that. For maintenance, we employ about three to five experts.

We are planning to increase our Elasticsearch usage. We have the plan because some Elasticsearch systems integrate with other products and we must grow.

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PP
Programmer at a tech services company

Not really any scalability issues, but we have set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we don’t hit the disk space issues. It would be helpful if such a feature were added to the UI, where old logs could be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there).

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SR
Associate - Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We have approximately five people in my organization using ELK Elasticsearch.

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it_user807603 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps/System Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Elasticsearch is a very easy to scale product, compared to other similar technologies.

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it_user844839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It's a scalable solution. For now, we have about 10 users and we plan to increase that number. We use it regularly. 

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NA
General Manager at BroadBITS

The stability is good but we have only done vertical scaling and not horizontal at this time. We collection approximately 1,000 EPS and have three people using the solution in my organization.

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FZ
Lead Software Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not had any issues with the scalability.

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HY
Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is very impressive. We can do a lot of things with the product and have not explored all the possibilities as it is something we use somewhat lightly compared to its potential.

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BT
Engineer at IT Specialist LLC

This solution is scalable.

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it_user348018 - PeerSpot reviewer
EChannel IT Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues. It is easy to scale with the cluster node model.

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YR
Associate Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Elasticsearch is scalable, although we only have about five users and they are not constant. We do plan to increase our usage in the future.

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Buyer's Guide
Elastic Search
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Elastic Search. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.