Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released

Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by nemo44x on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:34PM (#15699361)

As in a publicly facing front end? If that's your case, you wouldn't ever want to expose Elasticsearch to your front end directly. If you have a private front end that is inside your firewall then just create HTTP requests to Elasticsearch - it has a RESTful API.

But querying from a publicly facing front end would be a poor idea - would you expose a database directly to the front end?

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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by naiv on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:49PM (#15699505)

It is called Elasticsearch and not Elasticdatabase, at one point it sounded like good idea to jump on the nosql bandwagon.

It is a fantastic idea to call the index directly from the frontend and could be solved with a read only type of index or api key with read only scope.

The current design with an unnecessary security layer outside of Elasticsearch is a poor idea adding too much administrative overhead and ridiculous latency.

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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by loopdoend on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:13PM (#15700768)

They have what you are looking for with their X-Pack Security addition, which requires a license, though under very favourable terms compared to others...

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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by notyourwork on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:54PM (#15700908)

Hamburgers also don't have ham, you are missing the point.

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