Jepsen: Elasticsearch

1 · Kyle Kingsbury · June 15, 2014, 11:06 p.m.
This post covers Elasticsearch 1.1.0. In the months since its publication, Elasticsearch has added a comprehensive overview of correctness issues and their progress towards fixing some of these bugs. Previously, on Jepsen, we saw RabbitMQ throw away a staggering volume of data. In this post, we’ll explore Elasticsearch’s behavior under various types of network failure. Elasticsearch is a distributed search engine, built around Apache Lucene–a well-respected Java indexing library. Lucene handle...