I’m BAAAAACK!

To playing with Elasticsearch. I completed the tutorial a few months ago, and have decided to preview a few things for the project that has been in the back if my mind for a few years. (That will be discussed at a later date)

“The Project” requires fast search results, but with the way technology has progressed, I don’t think it would overly suffer if a different data storage method was used. But for this, I prefer the document structure vs tables with “proper” keys and references to associated tables. (references will not be completely removed, but simplified)

To do some actual simple testing, I created a local instance using the “free and open Elastic (ELK) Stack“. After that was up and running (had a few hiccups with the 8.2 version as security is built in, that is different since the course was on 7.16 I think…), I created a virtual environment in Python, and connected to Elasticsearch. This was also successful.

So now, I have a demo showing that I can save and retrieve the needed data (I plan to use Python for the server processing and API). Now all that is left to do is fully realize the idea, and code it properly! Yeah, that is a bit of an over simplification. At least it is more than just a thought right now!