ElasticSearch Plugin to support for Peerplays

[bobinson]

ElasticSearch Plugin to support various dApps, API end points, REST APIs, demux etc.

User Story

The Elastic Search plugin can help Peerplays to scale easily at the same time providing easy to access, familiar end point to end users.

Impacts

• [ ] API (the application programming interface)
• [ ] Build (the build process or something prior to compiled code)
• [ ] CLI (the command line wallet)
• [ ] Deployment (the deployment process after building such as Docker, Gitlab, etc.)
• [ ] P2P (the peer-to-peer network for transaction/block propagation)
• [ ] Performance (system or user efficiency, etc.)
• [ ] Protocol (the blockchain logic, consensus, validation, etc.)
• [ ] Security (the security of system or user data, etc.)
• [ ] UX (the User Experience)
• [ ] Other (please add below)

Additional Context (optional) REST API can be made easily available with Elastic Search Plugin

Community / PBSA check list

• [ ] Evaluate / Prioritize Feature Request
• [ ] Refine User Stories / Requirements
• [ ] Define Test Cases
• [ ] Design / Develop Solution
• [ ] Perform QA/Testing
• [ ] Update Documentation

[gladcow]

ElasticSearch plugin tracks operations and allows witnesses to use less RAM. To track specific objects (proposals, accounts, Peerplays-specific objects) es-objects plugin is used.

Related Bitshares pull requests to backport:

1. ElasticSearch plugin: https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/444 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/873 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1201 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1458 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1693/commits/376f0317d66f70e0daa3a5c9e29d17544bcdb583 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1725

2. ES-objects plugin: https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/500 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1271 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1429 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1541 https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/pull/1717

[gladcow]

ElasticSearch 7.5.0 (the latest version at the moment) is working with BitShares plugin, as far as I can see. Version 7.4 was tested by BitShares: https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/wiki/ElasticSearch-Plugin#installation . I think we can use the latest version of the ElasticSearch.

[gladcow]

Peerplays-specific objects to add to es-objects plugin indecies: betting markets, bets operations, sports, tournaments, games operations, btc operations.

[pbattu123]

Elasticsearch plugin introduced into peerplays and it is available from release @1.4.3