Elasticsearch
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“for the same reason we used ElasticSearch for vector search, because it's just one part of a query.”
“found its speed, capabilities, and simplicity all significant improvements compared to the MariaDB-based search”
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“L2: Elasticsearch fallback with Painless scripting to score offline users”
Caveats and dissent
“I would never. Ever. Bet my savings on ES being stable enough to always be online to take in data, or predictable in retaining the data it took in.”
works in infosec as a consultanton “Elasticsearch Was Never a Database”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Elastic is in fact open source again.”
Elastic employeeon “Elastic lays off 7% of employees”
Threads where it came up
- Elasticsearch Was Never a Database 2 mentions
- RIP, vector database 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 1 mention
- Elastic lays off 7% of employees 1 mention
- Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements 1 mention
- I Still Prefer MCP over Skills 1 mention
Data: elasticsearch.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“for the same reason we used ElasticSearch for vector search, because it's just one part of a query.”
“commercial Elasticsearch was not allowed, so I replaced it with self-hosted Elasticsearch inside the VNet”
“Same with Elasticsearch vs. Opensearch”
“if I have some ElasticSearch cluster, I use a skill to describe the data”
“offer alerts and search by indexing it using elasticsearch”
“found its speed, capabilities, and simplicity all significant improvements compared to the MariaDB-based search”
“We use ES like a DB, but, not with SQL; and most importantly, it's not the source of truth/primary store.”
“I would never. Ever. Bet my savings on ES being stable enough to always be online to take in data, or predictable in retaining the data it took in.”
“L2: Elasticsearch fallback with Painless scripting to score offline users”
“We have even largely moved away from ElasticSearch to Postgres where we can, because it's just so much easier to implement with new complex filters”