[lockhead]

It's slower on same hardware, but fine, stay away if you need the UI, the Kibana Fork is hellish slow and riddled with bugs.

[darkamaul]

It’s slightly more complex that this. Both OpenSearch and Elasticsearch have workflows where they excel.

My company did a fairly comprehensive benchmark of the two products [0] if you are interested in comparing performances.

[0] https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/03/06/benchmarking-opensea...