OpenSearch is a family of software consisting of a
search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
(also named OpenSearch), and ''OpenSearch Dashboards'', a data visualization dashboard for that search engine.
[ The software started in 2021 as a ]fork
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of Elasticsearch and Kibana, with development led by Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide d ...
.
History
The project was created after Elastic NV
Elastic NV is an American-Dutch company that was founded in 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was previously known as Elasticsearch. It is a search company that builds self-managed and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for search, logg ...
changed the license
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of new versions of this software away from the open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
Apache License in favour of the Server Side Public License
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(SSPL).[ Amazon intends to build an open community with many stakeholders.][ (Currently only ]Amazon Web Services
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has maintainership status and write access to the source code repositories, though they invite pull requests from anyone.)CrateDB
CrateDB is a distributed SQL database management system that integrates a fully searchable document-oriented data store. It is open-source, written in Java, based on a shared-nothing architecture, and designed for high scalability. CrateDB inc ...
, Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
Red Hat has become ass ...
and others have also announced an interest in building or joining a community to continue using and maintaining this open-source software.[
]
OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as ...
-based search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
that started as a fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from la, furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tine (structural), tines with which one ...
of version 7.10.2 of the Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is dual ...
service.[ It has Elastic NV Intellectual property and telemetry removed, and is licensed under the Apache License, version 2.][ The maintainers have made a commitment to remain completely compatible with Elasticsearch in its initial versions.][
]
OpenSearch Dashboards
OpenSearch Dashboards started as a fork of version 7.10.2 of Elastic's Kibana
Kibana is a source-available data visualization dashboard software for Elasticsearch, whose free and open source successor in OpenSearch is OpenSearch Dashboards.
History
It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed ...
software, and is also under the Apache License, version 2.
See also
* Elasticsearch#Licensing changes
References
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External links
Official website
Search engine software
Software forks