Fair enough, I wasn't aware of MATCH... AGAINST will have to check it out. But although I'm not going to keep going back and forth on this in HN comments it really has been my experience that Elasticsearch can do some very cool things that I've struggled to do with MySQL. I've already named the top three examples I have in mind (full text search, recommendations/related items, and trending topics i.e. finding terms used in text fields in the last week that weren't as frequently used in the last month.)