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Re:Elastic Search - Incorporated by luser001 on Monday July 16, 2012 @01:54PM (#4251746)
Quick, possibly beginner question: do you hold all the data in RAM, or is some of it on disk?
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Re:Elastic Search - Incorporated by gecko on Monday July 16, 2012 @03:28PM (#4252107)
We store it entirely in RAM. ES stores data on disk for persistence, but prefers to keep its working set fully in RAM, and will (by design) crash by default if it runs out of memory.
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