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OpenSearch
Community-driven Elasticsearch fork by AWS
10.0K stars
500 contributors
Since 2020
Community-driven Elasticsearch fork by AWS
License
Apache-2.0
Min RAM
4 GB
Min CPUs
2 cores
Scaling
distributed
Complexity
intermediate
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
✓
K8s native
✕
Offline
✓
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none
Use cases
- ✓ Primary: full-text-search
- ✓ Primary: log-analytics
- ✓ Primary: observability
Anti-patterns / when NOT to use
- ✕ Lags behind Elasticsearch features
- ✕ AWS ecosystem bias
- ✕ Large resource footprint
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Replaces / alternatives to
Technical specs
Language
Java
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Data model
document
Deployment
dockeraptbinary
Community
GitHub stars 10.0K
Contributors 500
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing AWS / OpenSearch
Funding corporate
Release
Latest version
— Last release —
Since 2020
Best fit
Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
general