Presentation: TweetElasticsearch as primary storage?

Elasticsearch is known for being a first class open source solution for BigData Search and Analytics. Millions of downloads and numerous installations use Elasticsearch in combination with databases to provide search access to data. “Cool, bonsai cool” is more than the elasticsearch.org slogan - Like others we were truly amazed by it’s ease of use, horizontal scalability and stability. Over time we started to use Elasticsearch not only as search engine, but as Primary Data Store in our projects. In this use-case oriented talk the advantages, pitfalls and possibilities of using Elasticsearch as primary storage for billions of records will be shared.Over the last two years we also created some Open Source Plugins for Elasticsearch that are of general interest.