# Elasticsearch as primary datastore for chat application **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-primary-datastore-for-chat-application/238014 "2020-06-22T06:52:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deshmukhm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@Deshmukhm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deshmukhm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-primary-datastore-for-chat-application/238014/1 "2020-06-22T06:52:02Z")
As per various articles to choose elasticsearch as a primary datasource is solely depends on the usecase. So if I want to implement chat application similar to Microsoft teams or any, Will it be a good idea to use it as a primary source of truth? I want to implement app-wide search in the application, We can expect 1 million read/writes per month and files upto size 10MB ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-primary-datastore-for-chat-application/238014/2 "2020-06-22T08:29:56Z")
Welcome! You must read this page: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/current/index.html) It has a "Data Store Recommendations" chapter. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-primary-datastore-for-chat-application/238014/3 "2020-07-20T08:35:56Z")
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