alt Hacker NewsUsed to be, but they're very complicated to operate compared to more modern alternatives and have just gotten more and more bloated over the years. Also require a bunch of different applications for different parts of the stack in order to do the same basic stuff as e.g. Meilisearch, Manticore or Typesense.
>very complicated to operate compared to more modern alternatives
Can you elaborate? What makes the modern alternatives easier to operate? What makes Elasticsearch complicated?
Asking because in my experience, Elasticsearch is pretty simple to operate unless you have a huge cluster with nodes operating in different modes.