Amazon announced the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, an organization controlled by Linux Foundation, which will oversee the further development of the OpenSearch project, which is a fork of the Elasticsearch search, analysis, and data storage platform, as well as the Kibana web interface. It is noted that moving OpenSearch to an independent, neutral platform, not controlled by individual companies, will attract new participants and make the project more attractive for implementation.
The project will be managed by a technical committee formed from representatives of the community and companies participating in the development. The main principle of the management model is defined as "development by the community for the community". Amazon, SAP, Uber, Aiven, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, Eliatra, Graylog, NetAp Instaclustr and Portal26 have announced their participation in the work on OpenSearch in the new organization. The community that has formed around OpenSearch has several thousand participants, including more than 200 maintainers from 25 companies and organizations. Since the creation of the fork, the project has recorded more than 700 million downloads.
The fork was created in response to the Elasticsearch project switching to the non-free SSPL (Server Side Public License) license and ceasing to publish changes under the old Apache 2.0 license. Despite Elasticsearch's recent return to using a free license, the OpenSearch project has not lost its relevance, as it continues to use the permissive Apache 2.0 license instead of the AGPLv3 license that Elasticsearch switched to, and also develops a number of specific add-ons that were previously supplied by Amazon in a separate Open Distro for Elasticsearch distribution and replace the paid components of Elasticsearch.
Source: opennet.ru
