Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
The same Elasticsearch, with Kibana installed alongside, run on your own machines.
alternatives to
Elastic Cloud
Elastic's managed service that runs Elasticsearch and Kibana on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. A closed product from Elastic.
Side by side
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | Full replacement | 78k | Other | Open core | Yes | Java | v9.5.5 | 2026-10-06 |
| OpenSearch | Full replacement | 14k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Java | 3.9.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes | Full replacement | 2.9k | Other | Source available | Yes | Go | v3.5.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator | Partial | 584 | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v3.0.0 | 2026-10-02 |
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🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Fork of Elasticsearch 7.10.2 with OpenSearch Dashboards, run on your own machines; APIs have diverged since.
- Language
- Java
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 14k
- Latest
- 3.9.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Deploys, scales and upgrades Elasticsearch, Kibana and the rest of the Elastic Stack on your own Kubernetes cluster.
OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator
Deploys, scales and upgrades OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards on your own Kubernetes cluster; OpenSearch APIs have diverged from Elasticsearch.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 584
- Latest
- v3.0.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-02
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