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I agree that Lucene is a mature solution with many excellent use-cases.

For this portion of the stack why would it be preferable to start with Lucene rather than Elasticsearch? (for all of the distributed scaling benefits)

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I would probably start with elasticsearch and establish a business case first. Only once that's proven and some need for lower level customizations arises, I would descend the stack.

Perhaps it's because Elastic Search shouldn't ever be a primary data store - it will eventually eat your data.

That said, looking over Chronix I can't tell if it was supposed to be a primary data store.

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