MOmooreds·Apr 12, 2023Submission
Verify Connection to Elasticsearch (2021)
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elasticsearch-py
Python2014–2023
elastic / elasticsearch-py
elasticsearch-py
Official Python client for Elasticsearch
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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16 sourcesSince Elastic spitefully patched all of their client libraries to fail if the server is not a "genuine" ES server, I don't see what good a drop-in replacement with protocol compatibility would do.
Go client: https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/blob/3985f2a1554...
Python client: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/commit/e72aa3e24...
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backendFD: I have a friend who works at Elastic, though he doesn't really colour my opinions of things.
> Firstly, dick moves like this: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623
I understand that this is unpopular, but you can make a very strong argument that it's to prevent weird errors in the future. I'm also guilty of littering my code with Asserts to ensure the universe is working fine.
The alternative is to allow it to work and then you end up with weird issues like when you connect mysql client to mariadb server (and vice-versa): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50169576/mysql-8-0-11-er...
> Secondly, I don't buy the argument from Elastic any more. Yes, the ethical thing to do when you're making money from someone's work is at least contribute back. At the same time though, they're making money from packaging it up and sell
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ing it _as a service_. That "as a service" part is where they're making the bucks.
That's just an opinion, yes they have a service, and yes it competes with Amazon. Is it cool for Amazon to take a body of work and sell it without supporting it? Are amazon actually supporting it? Is it the same as Elastic using Lucene? (not really because Elastic submits a the majority of fixes to Lucene, but, you get it).
it's kinda gray, I'm sure Amazon thinks they're the good guy, but it's hard for me to look at Elastic as the bad guy in all this.
And my bet is it's the one most are going to be using from now on. I used to think this was a fairly black and white issue, but now two things have coloured it for me.
Firstly, dick moves like this: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623
Secondly, I don't buy the argument from Elastic any more. Yes, the ethical thing to do when you're making money from someone's work is at least contribute back. At the same time though, they're making money from packaging it up and selling it _as a service_. That "as a service" part is where they're making the bucks.
A bonus thirdly; OpenSearch really is Open Source, and ElasticSearch no longer is.
In OpenSearch – open-source search and analytics based on Apache 2.0 ElasticsearchOh man, https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1734 is a disappointing read. I know ES wants to save their business, but alienating users isn't exactly the path to success.
In I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging systemOfficial Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
294 points · Open discussionElasticsearch clients now verify if the server is official Elastic distro
2 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1666
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1667
In Elasticsearch-py removes support for AWS ElasticsearchElasticsearch-py removes support for AWS Elasticsearch
See https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1666 and https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1667
Elasticsearch-py is the official low-level client for Elasticsearch.
6 points · Open discussionVerify Connection to Elasticsearch
2 points · Open discussionIt's something like Django models but with Elasticsearch. You can create object classes and then save them to Elasticsearch, query them, etc. It's built on the lower-level https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py. Very handy.
In 'New' Python modules of 2015We use https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py. It will certainly make like easier.
In Elasticsearch for Beginners: Indexing Your GMail InboxThere are a couple of libraries listed below. Would using any of them make life easier with ElasticSearch + Python?
- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py (low level lib, from ES)
- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py (high level lib, from ES)
- https://github.com/mozilla/elasticutils (high level lib from Mozilla)
There are a few more, but they are either obsolete or don't have much traction. There's also django-haystack, but that's specific to django.
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