Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate Search connecting to multiple Elasticsearch clusters

On 8 March 2016 at 12:04, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > Good question, I have been wondering the same. > > I think we could even support this 5.6, essentially it's just a matter > of structuring the properties and how we read them. I basically > started with a single cluster to get to something working more > quickly, but it shouldn't take long to change that now. > > Only in the docs we need to make clear that index sharing / queries do > not work across cluster boundaries. > > If we don't do it now, at least let's change the prop name into > "hibernate.search.default.elasticsearch.host" so it's not breaking if > we add support for index-specific overrides down the road. Yes it sounds like we agree about HSEARCH-2164 being a blocker. But will we regret this? what if we later decide that supporting multiple Elasticsearch clusters is both of low value and too problematic? Not sure if we're yet in a position to be aware of all implications; I guess I shouldn't worry too much as this is still experimental, yet I think it would be good to go through our list of features via the reference documentation and try thinking ahead of what problems that will introduce. I didn't find any point which wouldn't be easy to dismiss but a second pair of brains would be nice on this ;) Thanks, Sanne > > > --Gunnar > > 2016-03-08 12:55 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt;: >> Today our experiments are assuming we're connecting to a single >> Elasticsearch cluster: one hostname to configure, etc.. >> >> I think this is an acceptable limitation for version 5.6 (our first >> stable milestone to support this integration) but I'm wondering if we >> should document it as a temporary limitation or as an intentional >> design. >> >> I think that eventually we should allow having different entities >> (indexes) to be stored on different ES clusters; this shouldn't be too >> hard to manage as the codebase is already structured around this >> capability of having different types in different "indexes"; so while >> a single Elasticsearch cluster can manage multiple indexes (that's a >> bit of a novel concept) I see no reason to not allow different indexes >> to be mapped on different clusters. >> >> = Am I missing some strong reason to not allow this? >> >> = While this will (likely) not be supported in 5.6, should the public >> API and configuration properties allow for this to be configured >> per-index already? (Changing it later would be a breaking change) >> >> See also: >> - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-2164 >> >> Thanks, >> Sanne >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev