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

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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.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

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, log ...

changed the

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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

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(SSPL). Amazon intends to build an open community with many stakeholders. (Currently only

has maintainership status and write access to the source code repositories, though they invite pull requests from anyone.) Other companies such as Logz.io, CrateDB, Red Hat 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

that started as a

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.

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History

OpenSearch

OpenSearch Dashboards

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