Honestly elasticsearch is kind of a mess these days, I’m pretty excited to see where Amazon takes it. Hopefully we all have a better, truly open-source search engine to use in the future.
We make it much 10x cheaper and easier to scale and operate. We store the index on Amazon S3.
I’d like to see the architecture re-thought to include an indexer, like Apache Druid. I’d like to see a proper command line tool (‘searchctl’?), and API clients a-la gRPC (to be less Java-centric). I’d generally like the project to go back to basics and design for 2022 applications.