The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine
Altexsoft
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Instead, it acts as a smart load balancer that forwards requests to appropriate nodes (master or data nodes) in the cluster. Replicas Replica shards are copies of your primary shards and serve two main purposes: fault tolerance and load balancing. Below is a brief comparison of these two alternatives to Elasticsearch.
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