The thrift transport module allows to expose the REST interface of elasticsearch using thrift. Thrift should provide better performance over http. Since thrift provides both the wire protocol and the transport, it should make using it simpler (thought its lacking on docs...).
Using thrift requires installing the transport-thrift plugin using bin/plugin -install transport-thrift.
The thrift schema can be used to generate thrift clients.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| thrift.type | Can be either threadpool (not framed), threadpool_framed (framed), nonblocking (framed), and hsha (framed). Defaults to threadpool (the default on hbase and cassandra) |
| thrift.port | The port to bind to. Defaults to 9500-9600 |
| thrift.protocol | Either compact or binary. Defaults to binary |