AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named ...

The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support the search software, which is used by developers around the world ...

The battle between public cloud providers and venture capital-sponsored “open source” companies has taken an interesting new turn. When Elastic, makers of the open source search and analytic engine ...

OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) answer to getting outflanked by Elastic’s change in Elasticsearch’s license, which ...

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If breaking up is hard to do, as Neil Sedaka sang years ago, forking an open source project is even harder. Amazon Web Services forked ElasticSearch in 2021, citing the need to “ensure open source ...

Elastic, the makers of an open-source search and analytic engine, has settled its trademark lawsuit with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the latter's use of the term Elasticsearch. The dispute arose ...