Can, or rather should I use Splunk as a general purpose data store?
We already use Splunk for logging and metrics and ingest about 100 gigs of data per day.
But the question have been brought up, if we need to do general purpose free text searches or structural searches from our line of business applications.
Is storing that data in Splunk a viable option?
If so, even long term storage?
Another usecase, if we do event sourcing (http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html?s_tact=C43202QW)
Can Splunk be used as an event stream for that?
Or are the above usecases better suited for other tools?
//Roger
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