UPDATE: This article refers to our hosted Elasticsearch offering by an older name, Found. Please note that Found is now known as Elastic Cloud. 14-day hosted Elasticsearch no-cost trials are available on Elastic Cloud. Can Elasticsearch be used as a "NoSQL"-database? NoSQL means different things in different contexts, and interestingly it's not really about SQL. We will start out with a "Maybe!",
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