The use case: how Docker deploys Elastic Cloud
Docker uses Elastic Cloud, a hosted Elasticsearch service, to power search and discovery of its container library (the Docker Index), replacing a relational database search that was slow and added load. Hosting Elasticsearch with Elastic Cloud lets Docker avoid managing the distributed infrastructure itself.
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Moving to Elasticsearch in production affected the performance gains Docker was looking for. Load dropped on their production RDBMS significantly, and search latency and throughput were massively improved.