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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by alrs on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:48PM (#18870228)
Elasticsearch is a distributed index, not a reliable document store. You can expect availability problems and data loss. This is fine, because you can rebuild the index from your source of truth.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by plasma on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:18PM (#18870695)
In my experience with ES, definitely don't treat it as a source of truth; allow it to be rebuilt.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by rafaelturk on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:07PM (#18870340)
True.
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