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by 9dev 696 days ago
Elasticsearch is a pain to maintain, the docs are all over the place, and the API is what you end up with if developers run free and implement everything that jumps to their mind.

But there just isn’t anything comparable when it comes to building your own search engine. Postgres with a vector extension is good if all you want to do is a vector search and some SQL (not dismissing it here, I love PG); but if you want more complex search cases, Elasticsearch is the way to go.