Elasticsearch Sync with Hibernate Transaction

Question

I have an application running on spring2.5, hibernate 3.1 and compass search engine.The compass search engine is synchronized with all db operations. So that I can get the data from compass cache quickly. Now I would like to replace compass with Elastic search engine .I'm newer to elastic search and I think the author of compass was developed the elastic search. So that the synchronization mechanism should implemented in elastic search also. Anyone please suggest a way how to do this.

Answer 1

I don't know compass but Elasticsearch is search server on top of Lucene. And the only thing it does is update the search index based on a database query. This can be triggered manually or based on a timestamp filed in the database.

https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc

Answer 2

Hibernate Search provides a similar integration as Compass Search used to do.

Older versions of Hibernate Search would only provide Lucene embedded, but the latest is giving the option of using Elasticsearch instead .

This is in pretty good shape already, but highly contributed too so it's a great time to try it out and let us know what you feel is missing.

The catch is that it requires to use Hibernate ORM at version 5.0.0 at least: please upgrade Hibernate (you will benefit from that in many other ways too, not least much higher performance).