Nothing here is really being "abused." You're actually just re-purposing a piece of software to perform another job outside of its intended design - that's fine

Nothing here is really being "abused." You're actually just re-purposing a piece of software to perform another job outside of its intended design - that's fine! Just keep it stable and fast, and you're all good :-) As a side note: I love Elastic. I would make it my daily, general purpose database if I could, but that truly is abusive (to everyone involved.)