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by kijin 1988 days ago
Elasticsearch, too. In either case, it looks like they're just piping raw backend responses to the API endpoint without removing unnecessary fields.
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Yep, that's an indication of Elasticsearch being used (and not transforming documents to a standard representation that strips such fields).
It seems like they basically just exposed a lot of data directly, as apparently most of their APIs didn’t enforce any authentication or hide records that had been soft deleted.

Apparently the records were strictly sequential, which I don’t believe is true for Mongo which IIRC includes the node ID in part of it.