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		badrabbit on Oct 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer" Slightly unrelated question: Why does Lucene and derivatives (ES,Solr,etc..) not have the concept of a join? Always found it to be a major downside of them.

riffraff on Oct 21, 2023 [–]

Because they're not relational databases, I guess.

I mean, it's like asking why PostgreSQL does not provide a gopher server, it's just not their scope.

badrabbit on Oct 22, 2023 | [–]

Splunk can do a join and pipe just fine. It's a direct ES competitor and is not an RDBMS.

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