On: Elasticsearch – the definitive guide

[AznHisoka]

I agree. Searching is actually the easy part. Setting up a distributed cluster, allocating shards, replicas, rebalancing , etc is the hard part.

[arafalov → AznHisoka]

And that's supposed to be the hard part. There are no workaround for the hard parts. You need to understand the complex issues involved. However, you may want to read the blog from Found.no, they have a lot of great material: https://www.found.no/foundation/

[cmiles74 → AznHisoka]

Clustering Solr is even harder. I would say that, once you know what you're doing, ES makes this much easier.