This was not an easy decision. I believe both are great products and you wouldn't go wrong either way. I was on the fence for a long time before making the decision.
I think it's a combination of a lot of things. I've been a long time Elasticsearch user, I think I used it since version 0.17.
Elastic just seems to have a lot more built in and seem to be the leader on this front when it comes to innovation. They did start the whole project and are leading when it comes to new stuff being built in. Their business / survival depends on building the best search product in whatever circumstances they find themselves in.
OpenSearch is funded by Amazon, and it's not their sole focus.
Things just feel more polished, well integrated than OpenSearch. The Kibana UI, Observability stack and their AI search stuff some of which is unique to elasticsearch and I'm sure there are more things yet to be uncovered.
Taking a long term view just seems like the offering of Elastic is more fitting to our product requirements.
That said whatever we've implemented in this blog post would also work with OpenSearch. In the future we will enable customers to bring their own timeseries DB and it would work with OpenSearch.
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This was not an easy decision. I believe both are great products and you wouldn't go wrong either way. I was on the fence for a long time before making the decision.
I think it's a combination of a lot of things. I've been a long time Elasticsearch user, I think I used it since version 0.17.
Elastic just seems to have a lot more built in and seem to be the leader on this front when it comes to innovation. They did start the whole project and are leading when it comes to new stuff being built in. Their business / survival depends on building the best search product in whatever circumstances they find themselves in.
OpenSearch is funded by Amazon, and it's not their sole focus.
Things just feel more polished, well integrated than OpenSearch. The Kibana UI, Observability stack and their AI search stuff some of which is unique to elasticsearch and I'm sure there are more things yet to be uncovered.
Taking a long term view just seems like the offering of Elastic is more fitting to our product requirements.
That said whatever we've implemented in this blog post would also work with OpenSearch. In the future we will enable customers to bring their own timeseries DB and it would work with OpenSearch.