Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again

[solverat]

Maybe more a discussion topic than a real issue. However:

Statement

[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again.
– https://www.elastic.co/de/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

The generic data index bundle will be a must-have or even a required bundle within the pimcore ecosystem (sooner or later) and therefor we need to make sure that we are backing the right horse.

Personally, I have no real opinion on that. But since this decision is bounded to a lot of dependencies (Server-Infrastructure/DevOps, FE-Application using search engines), an official statement from PIMCORE would be awesome!

[fashxp]

Thx for sharing and opening the discussion!
For now, our plan is to stay on Opensearch.
We will check though, if support of both engines (opensearch, elasticsearch) would be possible with decent efforts and feasible.

Happy to read additional aspects and/or thoughts on this.

[jdreesen]

So support for both is not planned?

In our company we use Elasticsearch a lot, and switching is not easy because everything depends on https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/, which doesn't (and probably will not) support Opensearch. This means that we would have to use both in the future, which is quite unfortunate.

[fashxp]

Not yet, and this also heavily depends on how Elasticsearch and Opensearch will develop in future.
Right now, supporting both might be possible. But what, when they develop in different directions and are not compatible with each other anymore.

We also need to balance our resources and prioritize. If someone is willing and ready to contribute and maintain support for Elasticsearch, please let us know.