Why shouldn't I use ElasticSearch as my primary datastore?

Answer (1 of 19): As is the case with all database deployments, it really depends on your specific application. ElasticSearch is a great open source search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. Its features and upgrades allow it to act like a schema-less JSON datastore that can be accessed using...

[kent-where-the-light-is]

“One good reason to NOT use Elastic Search as a primary datastore is that it can lose writes.”

[nobuoka]

まあそりゃそうか。