[alkz]

in most cases elastic is easier to scale than a relational or timeseries db

[moduspol]

I mean, kind of? It depends on what your data looks like and how you're querying it.

If you're not doing free-text search, and your data will fit in memory in a big relational database VM for the foreseeable future, why Elasticsearch?

[alkz]

sure relational db is ok if fits in memory, but if we're talking about TBs of metrics i'd rather look for another way