# A very general question about Elastic-Search Syntaxes and Formats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-very-general-question-about-elastic-search-syntaxes-and-formats/105791>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-very-general-question-about-elastic-search-syntaxes-and-formats/105791 "2017-10-30T18:06:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schizo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/schizo/32/23478_2.png) [@Schizo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Schizo)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-very-general-question-about-elastic-search-syntaxes-and-formats/105791/1 "2017-10-30T18:06:38Z")

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I first fall in love with es, as it looked like it made things easier than using SQL QUERIES. So i wanted to do more and more and started using Kibana etc an realized that I've dived into a world with a lot of new idioms and ways of doing things.

1. Painless Script (why was it urgently needed to create a new scripting language)
2. Rison (why was it urgently needed to create a JSON copy?)
3. expression Language  
....

I'm just wondering what the general feedback is or if i am the only one thinking that elastic is trying to over-invent things?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-very-general-question-about-elastic-search-syntaxes-and-formats/105791/2 "2017-11-27T18:07:11Z")

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