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I am no fan of a lot of the design choices or the effort required to operate large ES clusters, but there are easily several hundred man-years of development effort behind ES. It would be a really long time before a team starting from scratch could produce something better.

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Check out some of the things going on in the Rust space MeiliSearch and QuickWit are 2 options emerging (targeting slightly different use cases), and Tantivy -the Rust equivalent of Lucene- is looking really good.

Quickwit CEO here. For people interested, we are focusing on immutable data (logs of all kinds typically). https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

We make it much 10x cheaper and easier to scale and operate. We store the index on Amazon S3.

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