[gibrown]

While I agree with the sentiment, I think Shay (lead ES developer) has explicitly said that he does not consider ES to be a data store... yet. I think this is mostly due to maturity.

I help run a large ES cluster (with canonical data in MySQL), and I consider this cautious attitude by the ES developers to be a good thing.

[spooneybarger]

He has indeed said that. We hosted the Elasticsearch meetup in NYC a couple weeks ago and specifically said it.