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I’d like to see more on the topic of features and cost.
Currently, as I understand it, if I want anomaly detection, watcher or other things like that in the original ES, I have to get a premium license, whereas here it… just comes free? I mean, I’m kind of confused about it. It says OpenSource, but OpenSource doesn’t necessarily mean free, so more info on that would be great.
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Yup. Been using it for a while. It’s free and Apache 2.0
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Open Distro is completely free which means: No costs and everything under Apache 2 License (= Opensource, which for the Apache License means basically you can do with the code and binaries whatever you want)
So you get anomaly detection, watcher like functionality, Cross Cluster Replication [1], security and a lot more for free (= no costs and real Opensource).
[1] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/blog/releases/2021/02/announcing-ccr/
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Welcome Northern!
Yep. Free as in beer (gratis/no cost) and free as in speech. We could be more explicit about the no-cost thing.
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