All 1.1 Billion Taxi Rides in Elasticsearch

I look at ways of fitting every column of the 1.1 billion taxi rides into Elasticsearch on a single, 850 GB SSD.

A Billion Taxi Rides in Elasticsearch

I investigate how fast a single instance of Elasticsearch can query over a billion records.

Querying Elasticsearch from Google App Engine

GAE strips HTTP body payloads if sent via HTTP GET. Elasticsearch excepts post bodies sent via HTTP GET. Re-writing the HTTP verb fixes the communications problem.