You need to store data, but you don’t have a vast schema. You need to fetch your data in a split second, and you don’t need referential integrity or transactions. You require a super stable and scalable datastore, but you don’t have the personnel to manage a DBMS. You need to persist data, but you also need to stream the data to external systems. If this sounds familiar, you should checkout Amazon DynamoDB.
You click the button and you can’t believe what your eyes see – data. But, not just data, lots of data and that data was returned in a blink of an eye. It seems to good to be true, and it would be if the data was fetched from an average SQL based database. But, in this case, the data came from Elasticsearch!
Elasticsearch is a distributed, open search, and analytics engine for textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured data. Elasticsearch is known for its speed and scalability as well as its simple REST APIs that make integrations fairly intuitive. NEST, the official .NET client for Elasticsearch, takes it one step further, making developing Elasticsearch integrations even easier.