Search War: Elasticsearch Vs OpenSearch

Amazon and Elastic's competing Elasticsearch and OpenSearch platforms battle for the crown of best enterprise search and analytics solution. This video explores the history behind the split and the differences between them.

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[markhuston]

If only enterprise software companies were half as good at explaining their solutions as you are! Great explainer video!

[PaulAtegie]

This was so clear and concise. Great job explaining! This is one of the best explanations I have seen in a while.

[rudralifeandfitness]

What a great explainer. Explained such complicated stuff around licensing so clearly in just 11minutes. Got to learn so much about licensing more than any other resource.

[klassica]

As much as I dislike so many of Amazon's business practices, I do find Elastic's nerfing of their sdk/beat clients by blocking connections to OSS implementations of the server software very anti-open. This prevents any open use of ElasticSearch being usable by it's client ecosystem after v7.14.

[henrikleion]

Cloud services aside, if you wanted to run elasticstack in your own premises, the main reason for choosing OpenDistro was that it included security features like role based access, ldap integration and TLS - you know, the bare minimum, whereas the only elastic alternative was to pay for Xpack. For small projects or customers this was not feasible.
Without this debacle, elastic would probably never have felt the urge to include these features into their products. So that’s a good thing.

[pranavsharma]

Explanation for this couldn't have been better! Kudos :)

[chinesesparrows]

Thanks for this neutral explainer, really informative

[ericleong]

5:38 sorry to ask, is this something confirmed by Elastic? I've read the FAQ and it says managed services offering substential access to Elastic feature set is not ok..or am I wrong?

[lewisk]

Amazon just seem to become more scummy by the day

[plazmaguyyago]

I find myself in elasticsearch's side why do people het mad about the company trying to make money? its not the forst time amazon has undercut competitors

[anre]

This was very explanatory.

Also do a video of tech companies that started out as simple open source projects & went on to list on the stock exchange & become multibillion dollar behemoths

[waldowalden]

Excellent review! Congratulations on the readiness!

[wildweasel]

That is opensource, but AWS are scary happy to compete with their customers. Happened to us too!

[Zuriki]

Both companies have the same motivation, money. The thing is, when all the cards were on the table, only Amazon actually chose the open source route.

Elastic wants the money and the good will, but doesn't have the fortitude to commit to actually being open source. They are just source available, or "open source with a booby trap". They want their cake and to eat it too.

I don't like Amazon, but at least they have so far commited to true FOSS principles, they have a roadmap for setting up an foundation for the OpenSearch project to get it out from under the corporate heel. I don't think "wanting people to develop the software for them" is a fair criticism, isn't the point of OSS exactly that people can choose to contribute and all parties benefit.

[jonathaneasow]

Ultimately this is a good argument to just use Apache Solr instead 😂

[narniashasta]

Great video to sort out the mess. I eventually chose OpenSearch for my project as it's just easy to use an AWS service, although I don't like the way Amazon as the bigger guy just infringed ElasticSearch's trademark bluntly and did not even want to give a proper apology at the very beginning.

[sethuramvenkatesh]

Elastic's License should be on the end user's side whereas the AWS benefits from their managed IAAS

[prajwalgaikwadofficial]

Was bit confused thanks for the explanation. 🤓

[TheodoreRavindranath]

I'm with ES. Open source has to have some conditions to be viable. People have put thousands of hours into it.

[gl]

The choice is clear when one would cost millions in licensing fees and the other is "free"