Case Study: Elastic Search Migration

OVERVIEW

Migrate Mongo DB to Elasticsearch for providing search capability to OTT Platforms.

Challenges

• Migrate the 2.5 million records of data from Mongo database to Elasticsearch database.
• Provide better search results than existing implementation with Solr.
• Provide Phonic based search results

Solution

• Using Transporter utility and custom scripts, able to migrate 2.5 million records of Mongo data to Elasticsearch.
• Auto synchronization between Mongo DB and Elasticsearch for delta records.
• Phonetic based search results.
• Searches based on language.
• Search results in less than 0.5 seconds.
• Logstash integration for importing data from other sources.

Technology Used

• Server – NodeJS, Orient DB, Mongo DB, ReactJS, AWS Services.