I agree, but ES should re-write their core engine to be more lightweight, otherwise a viable competitor will emerge.
With Elastic Search many of the features, security being one, are locked away behind commercial licenses. With Meili it seems they are, for the time being anyway, going with a proper open source version. I understand Elastic needs to earn money, and I get their licensing model to accomplish this. But Meili will probably steal away a good portion of customers interested in self hosting their search solution.
- written in rust or maybe just C - extremely lightweight and high performance - single small binary that runs anywhere - designed to run in Kubernetes from the ground up - scales dynamically up/down - zero downtime upgrades - rigorous security built into the core offering - fully open source - wire compatibility with ES
I hope that ES themselves do this. There are pretty significant barriers to creating a serious competitor to ES (unlike something like MongoDB for example which seems to have a very limited role in the future).