[vertice]

We've had great success with using ElasticSearch to index our couch db databases in near realtime into it's lucene indexes, and then querying those.

It allows each tool to focus on what it does well.

[jat850]

Looking into something very similar right now. What's your tradeoff been in terms of, for example, disk taken up by Elastic for indexing? How do you find Elastic in terms of how well it keeps up with indexing the data recently inserted into couch?

[r00fus]

I would be greatly interested in finding out more... what problems did you run into? Where did you spend most of the time?