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For anyone who's interested, two other popular contenders for replacing Elasticsearch are Typesense (https://typesense.org/) and Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/).

(both are also trying to replace Algolia, because both have cloud offerings)

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Honourable mention to ZincSearch, if you are looking for a lightweight single binary (golang) alternative: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch

I have no affiliation.

Don't forget OpenSearch[0].

[0] https://opensearch.org

Isn't that just an old fork of Elasticsearch?

It is a fork, but not old; they have ongoing commits: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commits/mai...

Plus, given that AWS is currently hosting Open Search, they are not incentivized to sit on their laurels when it comes to modern features or stability

Went from ES and sharding hell to less of a sharding hell with OS on AWS. I've been looking for a replacement ever since first friday evening sharding party with infrastructure team.

"sharding party"

Man, that made me laugh. I'm using that.

yeah, you haven't lived until you curled in blind rage _cluster/allocation/explain and _cat/shards?h=index,shard,prirep,state,unassigned.reason | grep UNASSIGNED every few seconds; In production party, with tarantulas on your back asking for status, of course.

I don't believe meilisearch or typesense are API compatible with Elasticsearch. I think the best part of this new tool is its a drop-in replacement.

Edit: Nevermind, in another part of this thread the maintainer said:

    We do get compared to Elasticsearch a lot. While we support some of its APIs, Manticore isn't a drop-in replacement

Which conflicts with the README: "Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack"

It's not a drop-in replacement in general, but it can be seen as a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch in the ELK stack because: - You can send data to Manticore using Logstash (L) - You can visualize the data using Kibana (K)

Sorry for the confusion :)

That is the most bullshit thing I’ve read in a while. Send data to manticore via logstash does not make you an elasticsearch replacement. And a lot of elasticsearch use cases are not using kibana.

(Logstash can basically ingest and output to everything…)

But not everything works with Kibana. What are some well known alternatives besides Manticore?

FYI, manticore is not "new". It has been around many years, and is based on Sphinx search which has been around longer than, I think, Lucene (which elasticseaech is built on)

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