Elasticsearch is a good candidate for the underlying database?

[marshell0]

For Q/A, is ES a better solution for this? I think it will simplify the development and improve the performance Do you have any plan for supporting ES in you roadmap?

[loid345]

Meilisearch better https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-go

[joyqi]

Interesting idea. ElasticSearch is good for searching, but for storing data, it's still debatable.

In Answer project, we use XORM to be the abstraction layer of database, so all data operations are designed for relational database. If you want to use ElasticSearch, you need to write your own data access layer. We'll continue to discuss this issue, and add ES support in our roadmap if it's necessary.

[ppchart]

It may be possible to use ES only for storage and search of critical data, such as titles and question content But correspondingly, developers need to increase the cost of use. It may be better for developers to let developers freely choose what kind of DB to use.

[fenbox]

Answer will support third-party search engine such as Elasticsearch plugin.