[xentronium]

I am not codewright, but we had troubles with sphinx on search queries containing larger number of terms (for us hiccups started after 100 terms or so). Besides, setting up delta-indexing is PITA and extensibility/configurability is limited. We ended up using solr (which is a memory hog) but at least it works.

[mcantelon]

Yeah, Elasticsearch is dead easy to update documents with. Elasticsearch is also easier than Sphinx to set up as well (basically throw some data at it and it'll suss out a mapping for it).

[codewright]

The running meme among the engineers at my company is that ElasticSearch is our secret weapon we love to whip out for various problems.

I almost wish it was more of a standard data store. Here's to hoping RethinkDB can fill that void.