Elasticsearch

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Architecture

An elasticsearch cluster is made up of nodes

Writes first hit the coordinating node, route to the respective shard, where the shard uses a memory buffer and transaction log to do cached writes

X-Pack

Part of the ELK stack ecosystem, for security, alerting, monitoring, reporting

Curator

Plugin that acts on elasticsearch indices, helping to automate administrative alterations to indices

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