I am looking into replacing memcached with elasticsearch. Basically, I need to reduce my software stack and since I will be using elastic for searching, I was thinking of creating an index that will act as a general cache, where I will be storing various items.
Is there a way to create such a "generic bucket" that can hold different items without elastic complaining? From what I have seen so far, when you store an item the 1st time, elastic automatically creates a type for each key. This can lead to trouble if you try to save a different item which happens to have a key elastic already mapped, with a different value.
Any way of accomplishing the above?
Regards