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OpenSearch

OpenSearch is an open-source distributed search and analytics suite, suitable for full-text search, log analytics, and observability.

Overview

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana. It provides full-text search, aggregation capabilities, alerting, and visualization features for building log analytics, monitoring, and enterprise search solutions.

Key features

  • Distributed search and indexing: strong horizontal scalability for large datasets and high-concurrency queries.
  • Dashboards and visualization: built-in dashboards and visualization tools for real-time analysis.
  • Plugin ecosystem: supports plugins to extend search, analytics, and security features.

Use cases

  • Log analytics and monitoring: replace ELK stack for log storage and query analysis.
  • Enterprise search: site search, product search, and document retrieval scenarios.
  • Data exploration and alerting: real-time alerting and metric analysis.

Technical details

  • Implemented in Java, compatible with Lucene index formats, supports RESTful APIs and SQL query interfaces. Active community contributions and official deployment guides are available.

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