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If you already have Elasticsearch, it makes sense to continue utilizing it.

Saying, “just use SQLite” completely dismisses the idea that this is a _shared_ memory across teams. The ability to easily connect to the remote service and have everything “just work” pays dividends when you have dozens or hundreds of users.

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I’m literally laughing at the root comment’s idea of proposing we replace ES with SQLite and imagining how that architecture review would go. Not everyone is doing MB/GB scale workloads.

that would be a pretty frail architecture too, I think I recall ES even saying not to rely on it for data persistence. Every time I've worked with ES it was always backed by some other database used as a source of truth.

This is a important bit of information which either gets lost or ignored for convenience at times. Other side of it is the fact that this open up the door to keep two data stores in sync which is a much bigger battle for a lot of small companies or teams

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