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📣 goldinfra

How is AWS OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch playing out?


Curious if other more informed people know what's going on with AWS's OpenSearch fork of Elasticsearch?

Is AWS doing a good job? Should people outside of the AWS ecosystem be using OpenSearch? Has Elasticsearch become more proprietary as a result of their license change?

Also curious if people are happy moving to completely alternative open source search engine solutions.


  👤 felixhummel Accepted Answer ✓
I'm wondering the same.

Here's a link to a "pro" argument from 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35909918

Edit:

A high-level overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62u30TO-OsA

Currently I lean towards Elasticsearch, because it fits our use cases better than OpenSearch.