Using ElasticSearch as a permanent storage

Question

Recently I am working on a project which is producing a huge amount of data every day, in this project, there are two functionalities, one is storing data into Hbase for future analysis, and second one is pushing data into ElasticSearch for monitoring. As the data is huge, we should store data into two platforms(Hbase,Elasticsearch)! I have no experience in both of them. I want no know is it possible to use elasticsearch instead of hbase as a persistence storage for future analytics?

Answer 1

I recommend you reading this old but still valid article : https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-as-nosql Keep in mind, Elasticsearch is only a search engine. But it depends if your data are critical or if you can accept to lose some of them like non critical logs. If you don't want to use an additionnal database with huge large data, you probably can store them into files in something like HDFS.