ElasticSearch

July 3rd, 2011

For an e-commerce platform we integrated the web search ElasticSearch into Apache OFBiz in collaboration with developers of the customer and thus replaced the former search that was based on Bobo and Zoie. In addition to realtime updates of the search index for changed data we developed a mechanism for zero downtime reindexing to be able to optimise the search parameters during live operations. The search strategies were tailored to the customer data and optimised with search words, which we extracted from log files of the former platform.