OpenSearch is it worth it, compared to Elastic
March 13, 2024
OpenSearch is it worth it, compared to Elastic
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with OpenSearch
We needed a solution to how can we give fast responses to our APIs as we needed super fast response times on our websites even if an API is called from the public website we need to have millisecond response times we use db as our long term storage which takes too much times and we used Elastic search previously but after it was hidden behind a paywall we found OpenSearch and loved it cause first it was open source and second we already use AWS as our exclusive cloud provider so after AWS integrated it in their ecosystem it was a no-brainer.
- Gives us millisecond response times
- Mainly open-source
- Integration Seamlessly with AWS
- Has a very big community so problems are fixes sooner then later
- Needs more descriptive documentation
- The UI feels a bit old
- Some functionality still doesn't work correctly
- Well we had 200 ms response times which decreased to 100ms while using OpenSearch
- Easy to use security plugins we dont need external IAM
- Super Easy Integration with many AWS Services such as kinsesi data stream and dynamoDB
Well as I said, Elastic is behind paywall now and managing OpenSearch through AWS is so seamless that we just love it. It gets updates faster we don't have to manage separate infra and many other settings to work with elastic search and some of the tools that it provides are better then them.
Do you think OpenSearch delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with OpenSearch's feature set?
Yes
Did OpenSearch live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of OpenSearch go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy OpenSearch again?
Yes