Hi, I am new to Jackrabbit but have some experience with Search Engines and lately with Elasticsearch. I can see the advantages of Elasticsearch over Jackrabbit because of its distributed style. However, I think I don't completely understand the picture and the space that Jackrabbit fills in the world of technical solutions, because I can't figure out in which situation could Jackrabbit be used instead of Elasticsearch. Maybe because of my knowledge of Elasticsearch I tend to use it even forcing it for systems where it's not designed for, so I would like to understand the whole picture and maybe work with Jackrabbit to include it into my skillset.
I can imagine some of the issues could be support of a lot of document types or observation, but still those are things that are implementable using Elasticsearch maybe together with Apache Tika or simlar libraries. As I said, I just came up to Jackrabbit today, so my knowledge is very limited, so don't be too harsh on me if the question is as simple as it seems to be.
