[treehau5]

I wasn't suggesting you do something that would place a large burden on your coworkers, but there is a point where the usefulness of existing software is greater than any potential churn of learning it's running environment.

Suppose you were a ruby developer and you want to create a fully scalable, highly available JSON document store that you can easily index, store, and backup/rotate, and a solution like this wasn't available in your language. Would you create your own database to store the documents, implement your own consensus algorithms and searching algorithms like TL-DF?

Or would you just learn how to use elasticsearch and incur the cost of running it?