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I've built real-world products with both ES and Mongo as primary datastores. ES is a hundred times more complicated, with a really awkward query syntax and a lot of unintuitive behavior. And, from the Call Me Maybe series, ES is no more reliable than MongoDB in a cluster.

ES is amazing for what it does, but its use cases don't overlap heavily with Mongo (or RDBMSes).



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