[packetized]

I agree with you wholeheartedly on the documentation, but having a full-featured HTTP ReST API from the beginning has been a powerful driver for ES, imho. Depending on your use case, this may or may not matter. Currently, I use/admin both - ES for logs, Solr for actual full-text document search.

[jordache]

In our use cases, where the search experience is modeled after google in terms of simplicity. There is simply no opportunity for end-user to configure a complex search criteria.