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What is Elasticsearch? And why you should use it

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that is used to query, index, and store JSON data. While Elasticsearch has many use cases, it's most often used as an enterprise-level search tool that enables users to find information quickly in large quantities of structured data to get relevant results and powerful analytics.

Mar 20, 2023

Up and Running with OpenSearch

This is the second post in our OpenSearch series. In this post, we’ll discuss how to set up an OpenSearch cluster on Bonsai, as well as on your local machine.

Jul 12, 2021

Welcome to OpenSearch

Bonsai has officially rolled out support for OpenSearch 1.0.0! Users can now choose between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch when creating a cluster.

Jul 12, 2021

Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

This post is the third installment of our series on OpenSearch. In this post, we’re going to explore some different ways of migrating data from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch.

Jul 12, 2021

The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch

As Customer Success Engineers for Bonsai, we often interface with people experiencing problems with their cluster.

May 3, 2021

Pathological Regular Expressions in Elasticsearch

In the past week, we had the opportunity to help a customer diagnose a fairly convoluted issue that led to increasingly stale results.

Apr 22, 2021

Why Elasticsearch should not be your Primary Data Store

During day-to-day conversations with customers, we often encounter people that either want to use Elasticsearch as their primary data store or that have already decided to use it that way.

Mar 4, 2021

Free Clusters are Getting an Upgrade!

Ever since the day Bonsai launched the world’s first Elasticsearch-as-a-Service cluster on demand, we always maintained a free tier of service.

Mar 2, 2021

Managed vs. Hosted: Setting a Standard

After 10 years in the industry, we’ve seen a lot of competing definitions and descriptions for the terms “managed” and “hosted.”

Feb 23, 2021

The Unexpected Reason Enterprises Choose Bonsai

Every year, our company rhythms have us step back in December to rest and reflect.

Feb 22, 2021

What I've Learned About Remote Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Remote work has long-been a controversial subject in the business world due to the conventional view that people are more productive in an office environment.

Feb 1, 2021

Open letter to Bonsai customers

Announcing a major change in the industry: Elastic is ending the open source licensing for future versions and AWS announces its forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Jan 22, 2021

Listening to your users

Does your application have a search bar? Are you recording what your users are searching for?

Nov 18, 2020

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Bonsai Blog

What is Elasticsearch? And why you should use it

Up and Running with OpenSearch

Welcome to OpenSearch

Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch

Pathological Regular Expressions in Elasticsearch

Why Elasticsearch should not be your Primary Data Store

Free Clusters are Getting an Upgrade!

Managed vs. Hosted: Setting a Standard

The Unexpected Reason Enterprises Choose Bonsai

What I've Learned About Remote Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Open letter to Bonsai customers

Listening to your users

Find out how we can help you.

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