Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
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Hi everyone A lot of you will probably see the title of this post and immediately think “of course, just use the right tool for the job.”
But for those who don’t … here's a thing for you.
I’d really love to hear from both sides:
- Folks who’ve been burned by using Elastic as a primary datastore.
- Folks who haven’t — and can make the case for why it works just fine. (I know some of you are out there!)