# Creating a new Data organization, what is the best solution? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 4, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-new-data-organization-what-is-the-best-solution/8925 "2012-09-04T15:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loic\_Bertron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loic_bertron/32/1794_2.png) [@Loic\_Bertron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loic_Bertron)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-new-data-organization-what-is-the-best-solution/8925/1 "2012-09-04T15:05:53Z")
Hi, I'm building a new structure for my data and i'm considering 2 solutions : - Using a DB to store my documents, and index them in ES - Using only ElasticSearch to store and search my documents (maybe stored in Hadoop) Since ES can store securely my data, scale it and access it, what is the point to have a DB on side of ES like CouchDB ? -- ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-new-data-organization-what-is-the-best-solution/8925/2 "2012-09-04T23:44:18Z")
Hi, Some people simply trust more mature DBs or HDFS more than ES or feel more comfortable with them. At the same time, others rely on just ES to hold their data. If you trust the hardware you run ES on, if you have high enough replication level, if you trust your team's ability to upgrade ES smoothly, etc. then you could use just ES. One thing ES doesn't have worked out well yet is backup, which may be important to you. ## Otis Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:05:53 AM UTC-4, Looky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm building a new structure for my data and i'm considering 2 solutions : > > - Using a DB to store my documents, and index them in ES > - Using only Elasticsearch to store and search my documents (maybe > stored in Hadoop) > > Since ES can store securely my data, scale it and access it, what is the > point to have a DB on side of ES like CouchDB ? -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-new-data-organization-what-is-the-best-solution/8925/3 "2017-07-06T03:14:08Z")