[cheriot]

If anyone has used one of the elasticsearch add-ons, I'd love to read a review.

Feature request: Allow the reviewer to specify which tiers of service they've used. I want to use elastic on heroku for my side project, but if the $10 plans are as slow as the $10 db plan then I need to decide between dropping heroku and jumping to the $50 db.

[tildedash]

I have used Bonsai and Searchbox in production (thousand of queries per day and few hundred thousands of documents). I have experienced issues with both of them :

* The SSL certificate of Bonsai has expired one day and nobody noticed it before I tweet it to the support team, they fixed it in less than 20 minutes

* I had some random downtimes on Searchbox

Like mathgeek, I am planning to run my own cluster on AWS EC2 to gain control on my cluster.

If you want to test one of these providers anyway, I recommend Bonsai because :

* the support team is fast and efficient

* the health API (and some others) is available on the cluster (not on Searchbox)

[mathgeek]

I only experienced it secondhand, so I don't feel right leaving a review, but one of the projects I inherited used Bonsai Elasticsearch when I first took it over.

We experienced a couple of overnight Bonsai downtimes that were unexpected and brought the site to a halt, so we moved off of them to a pure AWS implementation. Their support during those periods was top notch.

From what I hear, they're better now about downtime.

[m0th87]

We've used both Bonsai and Found in production with some fairly heavy read loads. They've both been a joy, with better support, stability and pricing than what I'd expect out of other database providers (Redis in particular used to be troublesome for us.)

[mrkurt]

Redis is surprisingly difficult to run well. I think most early providers just weren't very sophisticated. The Elasticsearch providers are mostly a new generation.

[itamarhaber]

Depends on the provider - some are doing the same thing they did 2 years ago whereas others keep innovating constantly :)

[mrkurt]

I specifically wasn't thinking about you guys as "early" when I said that. :D