Elasticsearch tells us all about its weighty Big Data tool

Blink and you'll miss it. Big Data analytics is a huge focus of startup activity with young and new companies getting a green light from blue-chip customers and VCs almost all the time. Well, that’s an exaggeration, but take your eye off the ball in this area and the landscape can change in fairly short order. Elasticsearch, …

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Yup, we've just implemented it

We've just implemented it against our solutions with Catalog360. Marvel tools take a bit of getting used to.

[Keven E.]

Laziness

"...how successful an ad campaign was; why a DBMS is running slowly; and even when did an ATM break down?"

No. Not "big" problems at all. All three are the solution looking for a problem to justify its existence. The first is/should be (defined) built into the campaign itself (oldest story in the capitalists book). The second is running *slowly (compared to whatever) because of the size of the useless data you are subjecting systems to... and the third is, well, a self defining pile of bullpuckets. Your ATM's suck (by design) if they aren't faster than and are relying on your average disgruntled user who ran out of pocket cash and will take the time to tweet about it.

Keep the "examples" coming tho. Love to hear what else you believe you have in *storage.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Laziness

Your ATM's suck (by design) if they aren't faster than and are relying on your average disgruntled user who ran out of pocket cash and will take the time to tweet about it.

I can well believe something cobbled together in house, scraping twitter with a regex like /ATM (WTF|random expletive)/ would be easier to get approved and into production than properly secured access to either the ATM sensor data, the ATM operational logs, or the ATM maintenance schedule.