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NameOpenSearch
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.72
Rank#28  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperThe OpenSearch Software Foundation
Initial release2021
Current release3.0, May 2025
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon OpenSearch Service extends version lifecycle support timelines
7 August 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Why has OpenSearch awareness hit 89% but only 36% of users call it mission-critical?
9 October 2026, Diginomica

OpenSearch now available on watsonx.data for enterprise search and AI retrieval
23 April 2026, IBM

Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch® at Uber
25 June 2026, Uber

Online index migration and shard-scaling in OpenSearch with AOSC
24 July 2026, Atlassian

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