This is Amazon's fork of Elasticsearch, to avoid the licensing restrictions introduced when they switched from Apache 2 license to "Elastic License and Server Side Public License" - https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Firstly, dick moves like this: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623
Secondly, I don't buy the argument from Elastic any more. Yes, the ethical thing to do when you're making money from someone's work is at least contribute back. At the same time though, they're making money from packaging it up and selling it _as a service_. That "as a service" part is where they're making the bucks.
A bonus thirdly; OpenSearch really is Open Source, and ElasticSearch no longer is.
I know some people on hackernews etc are upset with the decisions of Elastic. Suspect most people couldn't care less, even if they are even aware.
[citation needed]. Some Linux distros (notably Debian, Fedora, Arch) only have MariaDB in their repos and will push you towards it, even if you try to ask for MySQL.
CentOS even just installs MariaDB when you `yum install MySQL`
Also the EOL support on elastic versions are pretty aggressive now. It’s been a challenge for us to keep up with it.
> Firstly, dick moves like this: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/pull/1623
I understand that this is unpopular, but you can make a very strong argument that it's to prevent weird errors in the future. I'm also guilty of littering my code with Asserts to ensure the universe is working fine.
The alternative is to allow it to work and then you end up with weird issues like when you connect mysql client to mariadb server (and vice-versa): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50169576/mysql-8-0-11-er...
> Secondly, I don't buy the argument from Elastic any more. Yes, the ethical thing to do when you're making money from someone's work is at least contribute back. At the same time though, they're making money from packaging it up and selling it _as a service_. That "as a service" part is where they're making the bucks.
That's just an opinion, yes they have a service, and yes it competes with Amazon. Is it cool for Amazon to take a body of work and sell it without supporting it? Are amazon actually supporting it? Is it the same as Elastic using Lucene? (not really because Elastic submits a the majority of fixes to Lucene, but, you get it).
it's kinda gray, I'm sure Amazon thinks they're the good guy, but it's hard for me to look at Elastic as the bad guy in all this.
https://www.hopsworks.ai/post/open-distro-for-elasticsearch-...
Maybe don't use an overly generous license if you want to open source, but not really...
Alternatively, it must be a strategic play of some kind with the technology behind it, but that seems very unlikely to me.
Hidden away at the bottom of the page. It's too bad there isn't an Open Source License that protects smaller business from the tech Goliaths.