# Data migration from solr to elastic?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 9, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208 "2015-11-09T22:40:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/1 "2015-11-09T22:40:28Z")

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rivers are deprecated.what are other ways to migrate data from solr to elastic?

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**Author:** ![mainec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mainec/32/5557_2.png) [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/2 "2015-11-10T09:31:02Z")

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There's recommendations in here on how to replace what rivers used to do:

> **[Deprecating Rivers
	  	 | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/blog/deprecating-rivers)**
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> When I added rivers way back in time in the early days of Elasticsearch, the idea was somewhat novel. One of the first tasks that users do when using Elasticsearch is to get data into Elasticsearch to...

Question out of curiosity: Why not simply re-index the data into Elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/3 "2015-11-10T10:50:50Z")

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because data is stored directly in solr. it is used as nosql DB

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**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/4 "2015-11-10T10:52:59Z")

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BTW may be there is a SIMPLE way to ingest csv?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/5 "2015-11-10T22:00:42Z")

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Logstash can ingest CSV easily.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-migration-from-solr-to-elastic/34208/6 "2017-07-05T23:39:23Z")

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