Apple M1 processor homebrew install very slow compared to docker image

[fdietz]

Using the elasticsearch docker image as explained in the official reference documentation the performance is great: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docker.html. It is comparable to a setup on my Linux laptop.

docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.13.2

But, when installing elasticsearch with homebrew brew install elasticsearch-full, I've noticed it is several times slower. For example my Ruby on Rails test suite runs normally in 20 seconds, but requires 2 minutes now.

Since I'm not very knowledgable in elasticsearch, I don't know how to debug this further. But, I assume there' a simple explanation for the slowdown.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[DPattee]

A docked image is a read to run virtual machine (basically), while installing from a package manager like homebrew actually involves compiling the app you are trying to run. If you have a fast enough internet connection, downloading an image will be faster than compiling…

[jeremy]

Possibly due to installing the x86_64 builds and hence running under Rosetta, whereas Docker pulls the arm64 image automatically?

Elastic does provide aarch64 builds which you can install instead by changing x86_64 → aarch64 in the formula URLs, if you're interested in troubleshooting further.