# Terrastore Embedded Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terrastore-embedded-elastic-search/3007>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 10, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terrastore-embedded-elastic-search/3007 "2010-06-10T03:04:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Doyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terrastore-embedded-elastic-search/3007/1 "2010-06-10T03:04:05Z")

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What would be a compelling reason to use this over native ES and vice  
versa?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Sergio\_Bossa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sergio_bossa/32/3312_2.png) [@Sergio\_Bossa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sergio_Bossa)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terrastore-embedded-elastic-search/3007/2 "2010-06-10T05:48:07Z")

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:04 AM, sd [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com) wrote:

> What would be a compelling reason to use this over native ES and vice  
> versa?

As far as I cat tell, there's no advantage per se by using an embedded  
ES instance.  
But, by embedding ES into your own product, you could avoid double  
operational costs, plus, obviously, add search engine capabilities in  
a somewhat integrated way.

Talking about Terrastore and Elastic Search integration, the real  
advantage isn't in having an embedded ES server (with its own port and  
alike) into Terrastore: you could indeed shutdown the embedded HTTP ES  
interface and embedded ES storage (by properly configuring the  
properties file), and relay on external ES instances; this way,  
Terrastore would transparently delegate all index operations to  
external ES instances, so again, you'd still have an integrated  
solution for distributed storage and indexing.

Hope things are a bit clearer now, just let us know if you have other questions.  
Cheers,

Sergio B.

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Sergio Bossa  
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiob](http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiob)

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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, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terrastore-embedded-elastic-search/3007/3 "2017-07-06T04:23:27Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:23am UTC