The Elasticsearch service is one of the most popular search engines for big data use cases such as clickstream and log analysis. Search engines work well for warm data that can be queried in an ad hoc fashion across any number of attributes, including string tokens. Elasticsearch is a very popular search engine. General binary or object storage is appropriate for files that are unstructured, not indexable, and otherwise opaque without specialized tools that understand their format.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service manages the administration of Elasticsearch clusters and provides API access. It also provides Kibana as a visualization mechanism to conduct a search on indexed data stores in the Elasticsearch cluster. AWS manages capacity, scaling, and patching of the cluster, removing any operational overhead. Log search and analysis is a popular big data use case where Elasticsearch helps you to analyze log data from websites, servers fleet, IoT sensors, and so on. Elasticsearch...