[sandstrom]

For anyone who's interested, two other popular contenders for replacing Elasticsearch are Typesense (https://typesense.org/) and Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/).

(both are also trying to replace Algolia, because both have cloud offerings)

[entropyie]

Honourable mention to ZincSearch, if you are looking for a lightweight single binary (golang) alternative: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch

I have no affiliation.

[robertlagrant]

Don't forget OpenSearch[0].

[0] https://opensearch.org

[smarx007]

Isn't that just an old fork of Elasticsearch?

[mdaniel]

It is a fork, but not old; they have ongoing commits: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/commits/mai...

Plus, given that AWS is currently hosting Open Search, they are not incentivized to sit on their laurels when it comes to modern features or stability

[Keyframe]

Went from ES and sharding hell to less of a sharding hell with OS on AWS. I've been looking for a replacement ever since first friday evening sharding party with infrastructure team.

[cbsmith]

"sharding party"

Man, that made me laugh. I'm using that.

[Keyframe]

yeah, you haven't lived until you curled in blind rage _cluster/allocation/explain and _cat/shards?h=index,shard,prirep,state,unassigned.reason | grep UNASSIGNED every few seconds; In production party, with tarantulas on your back asking for status, of course.

[sontek]

I don't believe meilisearch or typesense are API compatible with Elasticsearch. I think the best part of this new tool is its a drop-in replacement.

Edit: Nevermind, in another part of this thread the maintainer said:

    We do get compared to Elasticsearch a lot. While we support some of its APIs, Manticore isn't a drop-in replacement

Which conflicts with the README: "Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack"

[snikolaev]

It's not a drop-in replacement in general, but it can be seen as a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch in the ELK stack because: - You can send data to Manticore using Logstash (L) - You can visualize the data using Kibana (K)

Sorry for the confusion :)

[merb]

That is the most bullshit thing I’ve read in a while. Send data to manticore via logstash does not make you an elasticsearch replacement. And a lot of elasticsearch use cases are not using kibana.

(Logstash can basically ingest and output to everything…)

[snikolaev]

But not everything works with Kibana. What are some well known alternatives besides Manticore?

[nchmy]

FYI, manticore is not "new". It has been around many years, and is based on Sphinx search which has been around longer than, I think, Lucene (which elasticseaech is built on)