Previously, on Jepsen, we demonstrated stale and dirty reads in MongoDB. In this post, we return to Elasticsearch, which loses data when the network fails, nodes pause, or processes crash.

Nine months ago, in June 2014, we saw Elasticsearch lose both updates and inserted documents during transitive, nontransitive, and even single-node network partitions. Since then, folks continue to refer to the post, often asking whether the problems it discussed are still issues in Elasticsearch. The response from Elastic employees is often something like this: