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SIREN
Company blog · siren.solutionsdatasecurity
SIREN is the company blog at siren.solutions, writing about data and security. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Kibana forked to support SQL and cross index joins in Elasticsearch”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The SIREn Solutions blog covers SIREn, a structured data search plugin for Solr and Elasticsearch, and Kibi, a Kibana fork for cross-index joins. Commenters link posts such as a memory and speed comparison with Blockjoin.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Siren is the search platform to investigate risks, threats and crimes. Siren provides the leading Investigative Intelligence platform to some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations for Search-centric Investigative Intelligence.
Most-linked posts?
- Kibana forked to support SQL and cross index joins in Elasticsearch3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-21
What Hacker News says?
My takeaways from the site for people who would like a summary: SIREn encodes [...] the index using a completely different model than Lucene, [...] it uses its own disk format, low level compression algorithm and query operator implementation. A comparison between regular method (Blockjoin) and SIREn can be found in this blog post: http://siren.solutions/24-times-less-memory-11-times-faster-... In SIREn, parent-chil…
Comment linking /24-times-less-memory-11-times-faster-measuring-the-impact-of-siren-on-elasticsearch-and-solr-systems/
on “SIREn – Enhanced Structured Data Search for Solr and Elasticearch”Submitted SIREn – Enhanced Structured Data Search for Solr and Elasticearch as a story · 44 points
HN discussionKibi – Data Intelligence Browser is a really excellent fork of Kibana for Data Intelligence use cases. Check it out at http://siren.solutions/kibi-a-kibana-fork-for-data-intellige...
Comment linking /kibi-a-kibana-fork-for-data-intelligence/
on “Kibana forked to support SQL and cross index joins in Elasticsearch”Submitted All Your Kibana 5 Plugins will break at each and every update as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI have been involved with some complex SOLR customizations such as Asian languages, probabilistic IR and neural ranking functions, etc. I have been proud of the end product but at the cost of blood, sweat and tears. To be fair, a lot of this was in the Lucene 3 era, in which doing anything interesting with the ranking function would be a big pain and probably wreck performance. I haven't done anything that advanced…
Comment linking /kibi/
on “Ask HN: Elasticsearch vs. SOLR?”Submitted Kibana forked to support SQL and cross index joins in Elasticsearch as a story · 14 points
HN discussionfor non trivial question that are relational in nature you might want to check out http://siren.solutions/kibi
Comment linking /kibi
on “Ask HN: Interesting data analysis project using elasticsearch and Kibana?”Submitted Elasticsearch cross index Join plugin as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kibi: A Kibana Fork for Data Intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving the “latest value” issue in Kibana as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kibana / Kibi Cross Index Timeline Widget Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussion