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by Xorlev 4515 days ago
I will say ElasticSearch features heavily in our infrastructure elsewhere, but for the Person API product, it's purely a primary-key lookup.

My coworker wrote a bit about how the search functionality of our offering works here: http://www.fullcontact.com/blog/sherlock_search_engine_that_...

That might make more sense why we do PK lookups.