I have Elasticsearch running in docker most of the time for local development. It's fine. You can run it with as little as half a GB of ram. It won't be using m

I have Elasticsearch running in docker most of the time for local development. It's fine. You can run it with as little as half a GB of ram. It won't be using much CPU unless you start throwing millions of documents at it for indexing. Our production cluster uses 2 1GB vms. The whole setup costs us about 60$/month. We have a about 7 million documents indexed in there. People here seem to assume Elasticsearch requires lots of memory and CPU. It actually scales down very nicely in addition to its famous ability to scale up very well. Any decent developer laptop should have no issues running this. Running VS Code is more of a burden on my laptop. And intellij is even worse.