OpenSearch vs Solr - Key Diffs?

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Hi all, I’m curious about the key differences between OpenSearch and Solr (besides the plugins) and or target use case as both rely on Lucene.

I ask as I’m using Solr to index documents and I’m wondering if I’m missing out on anything with O.S.

Thanks in adavnce.
LB

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you have OpenSearch Dashboards. I don’t think you have a visualization tool for Solr, right? maybe also not. i dont know yet.

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I recently wrote a blog post on this very topic: OpenSearch vs Solr: Which One Is Better to Use? - Sematext

As for visualizations in Solr, indeed the ecosystem is “thinner”, depending on exactly what you want. I’ve been making contributions to this young and promising tool lately: The Navigator for Apache Solr - Download

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Yeah, dash boards in OS are a given. Solr, not so much.

Thanks.

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A very helpful blog post, thanks.

Looks like Solr is still the way for me. It’s a personal project (not enterprise), no devops, no trawling of logs (just monster JSON and XML documents).

Cheers

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You’re welcome, I’m glad you found the post helpful.

You might want to watch this space, though. OpenSearch keeps getting quite interesting features :blush: