Alternatives to OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as OpenSearch.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
Elastic Stack bundles Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana for search and dashboards, but it is not open source and some features require paid offerings.
Quickwit
Search logs and other large datasets using an engine built around object storage.
Quickwit searches logs and large datasets with an engine built around object storage that separates storage from compute, also under Apache-2.0.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database widely used as a backend for logs, traces and metrics.
GreptimeDB
Store observability data in a database queried through SQL and PromQL.
VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database.
Apache Superset
A self-hosted data exploration and visualization platform with a no-code chart builder and SQL IDE.
