Having said that, I wonder if there are any plans to make querying more succinct in the future.
Right now you have to write 20+ lines of unintuitive code to make a relatively simple query.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Parallel+SQ...
If HN users feel strongly about this we're always happy to make exceptions, but we see a lot of incremental release and status-change posts, and most don't count as substantive.
Does Elastic generate most of their revenue through hosting, support, services, or something else?
So I'd say support and they have just gotten started with the hosted thing. (Which is probably great for a lot of things, big-ish data, full text search for not so latency sensitive applications - such as traditional websites, but we shall see.)
Will this solve the problems noted by Ayphr? https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
Great progress!