Modern organizations across industries are constantly under pressure to innovate and scale. Just over a decade ago, an organization could buy its time, be conservative in investing in new technologies, and still maintain a competitive edge. Fast-forward to today and the business and technology landscape is much more dynamic with changes in business practices and new technology popping up constantly. Organizations are increasingly at risk of getting left behind if they don’t scale fast.
Whenever we start a search consulting project from scratch, the obvious question is: which search engine to use? We’ve talked about Elasticsearch vs Solr before, but here we’ll compare Elasticsearch with its fork, OpenSearch. Chances are, if you need to decide between the two, you’ll be looking at a few dimensions.