Exploration of Document-Oriented Stores' Capacities for Managing Community e-Mailing Lists: Elastic Stack as a Case Study

There are very simple tools available that facilitate the management of email lists, such as web sites storing all emails, or e-mail digest received and stored in IMAP servers of the subscribers. These tools do not allow advanced free-text search queries and analytical queries over e-mailing list(s). In this paper, we investigate the capacity of elasticsearch -a document-oriented store, which implements inverted indexes for storing multiple collections of e-mailing lists. We propose a real-time free-text search workload as well as an analytical workload. For that purpose, we use elastic stack to implement the different tiers of the system including the data pipelines with logstash, the document-oriented store on elasticsearch, and the dashboard with Kibana.