Hi, Oh, hey, since I was mentioned: In Finland we run Koha exclusively with Elasticsearch in academic libraries. Public libraries are still using Zebra, but I'm under the impression that they will switch when they upgrade Koha to a recent version. I believe the last big missing piece was Z39.50/SRU server, and that the introduction of the Z3950 Responder in Koha fulfilled that one. So unless I'm missing something, we are pretty near feature-parity. However, there are still some bugs, and some improvements such as background indexing are still in progress. Here are a couple of relevant issues: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21357 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22690 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23875 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27344 --Ere dcook@prosentient.com.au kirjoitti 23.2.2021 klo 4.46:
Hi Tom,
I can't really speak to Elasticsearch with Koha, as I still just use Zebra. I imagine Ere in Finland or someone from Bywater in the USA might be the best to comment on Elasticsearch.
However, I'm curious what OS you are using. Debian/Ubuntu is typically the best option in terms of community support, but I also run Koha on OpenSUSE, and have run it on all kinds of other Linux-based OSes.
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Last year I checked in on the status of ElasticSearch with Koha and got the distinct impression that it was still quite a work in progress.
Almost a year has passed and I'm not sure if much has changed. As late as October, 2020, I see messages suggesting "Stay with Zebra for now". But I also see some messages about sites who claim to have successfully moved to ElasticSearch. It is just unclear if they are using it for everything or if there is some hybrid of using both in place.
The Wiki is of little help. Along with being completely Debian-centric (I'm not using Debian), it is a couple of versions behind. So, again, signs that ElasticSearch is still not mainstream.
So, who actually uses ElasticSearch in production at this point? I'm interested in doing so if it can speed things up as well as work fully with both Authorities and Bibs. But if it is still not there, I can continue with Zebra.
Thanks, Tom
-- Ere Maijala Kansalliskirjasto / The National Library of Finland