Elasticsearch is good, and it does scale, but it is much more cumbersome and expensive to scale and operate than Postgres. If you use the managed service, you'l

Elasticsearch is good, and it does scale, but it is much more cumbersome and expensive to scale and operate than Postgres. If you use the managed service, you'll pay for the operational pain in the form of higher pricing. The Postgres movement is strong and extensions like ParadeDB https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb are designed specifically to solve this pain point (Disclaimer: I work for ParadeDB)