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by reactordev 309 days ago
I mean, anything could replace elasticsearch, but can it actually?

It sounds like they had the wrong architecture to start with and they built a database to handle it. Kudos. Most would have just thrown cache at it or fine tuned a readonly postgis database for the geoip lookups.

Without benchmarks it’s just bold claims we’ll have to ascertain.