Author here. The limit we hit with ES was the memory required to have anything approaching decent response times for queries. I've always tried to keep ES in memory but that becomes a pain, and honestly the defaults for CH just... work whereas ES ends up needing a hundred dials slightly tweaked to make it work (and keep working).
The new JSON type looks amazing though! It's probably time I update the code, but honestly it's just been silently chugging along in the background with zero maintenance for now.
The new JSON type looks amazing though! It's probably time I update the code, but honestly it's just been silently chugging along in the background with zero maintenance for now.