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Re: Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

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https://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Last time I was exploring this space, ElasticSearch was hands down better than solr from a "speed to market" and "developer experience" standpoint. Those things really matter. It's one of the reasons MongoDB got way more popular than it should have based on all the compromised built into the platform by default.

Re: Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

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Is anyone aware of an open source alternative for Kibana and Logstash (based on lucene)?

Loki and grafana? (not really an alternative in the sense of "full text search" over logs, but an alternative in the sense "an interface for aggregate search over logs").

Re: Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

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Open Distro is not a fork (not yet at least) but simply a repackaging of ES plus some new plugins.

Open Distro will likely not continue to exist after this license change unless Amazon commits to turning it into a complete fork starting from the 7.10 version of ES.

Re: Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch

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PSA: This site is basically an ad. And not one about Elasticsearch at that.

I don't understand what all the noise is about. The new license does not make ES closed source, as far as I can tell. They re-license under the MongoDB server side license, which reads a lot like a rephrased AGPL to me.

None of you had any reasonable expectation of getting a free Elasticsearch to begin with, and decades worth of free maintenance, optimization and expansion.

If their product is this integral to your business, then may I suggest going ahead and buying a license for it?

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