ES is not a target storage for Kylin so far, at least not on coming release plan.
There are already many storage options in Hadoop Ecosystem, I don't think there's strong reason to invest on this path. And I don't remember there's any benchmark or comparison available today for your purpose. Please share with us if you have chance to do it:) Thanks. Best Regards! --------------------- Luke Han On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:17 PM, lufeng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Now if I want to build a OLAP platform to analyze our huge data, the first > impression is using Hive，but it can not match our real-time query needs. > Then I found lots of companies used ES to build their OLAP engine before > like tencent’s Hermes. So I want to know that what’s the difference > between ES and Apache Kylin from different dimensions like filter, > aggregation queries or etc. > > * Performance > * Flexible queries > * Data Model > * BI integration > * … > > After Kylin release latest architecture that can support different storage > engine, I found that Kylin will support ES[1] as it’s backend storage > engine. So I think ES is ROLAP engine that lots of people use ES as NoSQL > DB and Kylin is a MOLAP engine. > > I would love to hear some feedback for my confusions. > > Thanks. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/23 >
