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by PaulRobinson 2845 days ago
As a long time Elastic user:

[1] You don't understand their IP if you think it's Lucene. It really, really isn't.

[2] It's not single purpose anything. I've used it for search engines, event buses and as document stores. It's multi-purpose and more dependable at scale and under duress than Mongo thanks to sitting on top of the JVM.

[3] Stackoverflow stats don't mean anything. What are you trying to imply?