# Elasticsearch vs solbase

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-vs-solbase/7145>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-vs-solbase/7145 "2012-03-27T16:40:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-vs-solbase/7145/1 "2012-03-27T16:40:56Z")

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Hi,  
I did a prototype to store documents in elasticsearch and i was pretty  
happy with the experience, although there was some learning curve. but i  
recently got to know about solbase and how it scales really well since it  
uses hbase as a base. we already have an installation of hbase that we use  
super heavily for our production data. so solbase can really leverage the  
infrastructure we have.

im wondering what your thoughts are on elasticsearch vs solbase. i have not  
even done a hello world in solbase yet, so im little tentative. i got a  
feedback from a elasticsearch user that it can be pain to migrate files and  
such.  
i would really appreciate some insightful inputs.

thanks

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**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:** [March 27, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-vs-solbase/7145/2 "2012-03-27T18:42:24Z")

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Hi,

I think the main difference is that ES has a growing community and has been  
used in some very large installations (see  
[https://twitter.com/#!/otisg/status/170290369416790017](https://twitter.com/#!/otisg/status/170290369416790017) for example), while  
Solbase has no community and includes a modified version of Lucene/Solr.  
But the nice thing about Solbase is that I believe replication piggybacks  
on HDFS/HBase and index optimization and segment merges don't exist (but  
HBase compactions do!)

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On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:40:56 AM UTC+8, T Vinod Gupta wrote:

> Hi,  
> I did a prototype to store documents in elasticsearch and i was pretty  
> happy with the experience, although there was some learning curve. but i  
> recently got to know about solbase and how it scales really well since it  
> uses hbase as a base. we already have an installation of hbase that we use  
> super heavily for our production data. so solbase can really leverage the  
> infrastructure we have.
> 
> im wondering what your thoughts are on elasticsearch vs solbase. i have  
> not even done a hello world in solbase yet, so im little tentative. i got a  
> feedback from a elasticsearch user that it can be pain to migrate files and  
> such.  
> i would really appreciate some insightful inputs.
> 
> thanks

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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 6, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-vs-solbase/7145/3 "2017-07-06T03:34:34Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:34am UTC