Big Data Technology & Architecture

Jun 16, 2020 · Big Data

Hot‑Warm Architecture in Elasticsearch 5.x: Node Types, Index Allocation and Curator Automation

The article explains how to design a time‑based Elasticsearch cluster using a hot‑warm architecture with dedicated master, hot, and warm nodes, shows how to configure node attributes, allocate indices via settings or Curator, and discusses best‑practice compression and rollover strategies for large‑scale log data.