I spent fifteen minutes on a search for “best full text search” and Elastic looked like the best combination of popular+easy. Since I was expecting this to be t

I spent fifteen minutes on a search for “best full text search” and Elastic looked like the best combination of popular+easy. Since I was expecting this to be the diversion of an afternoon there wasn’t any point in investigating more than that. In hindsight, ES wasn’t the best choice for what this turned into: the problem is that it wants to be a managed cluster that does log analysis/analytics/observability/machine learning/I don’t know what all and full text search is almost an afterthought; whereas I want a single node that does full text search and nothing else. All that extra complexity makes it hard for me to figure out how to get it to do what I want, and I don’t have the time to invest in really understanding how it works under the hood. So I probably will switch to something simpler when I get a chance, so I can have a better chance of being able to figure out how to adjust it to make the results look the way I want.