Deploy Elasticsearch
👉 Open Source Core • Unbound Enterprise Cluster Search
Deploy OpenSearch Core
👉 100% Open Source Apache 2.0 • Community Driven
Elasticsearch
- Free Tier Allowance
- Self-Hosted Only
- Rate Limit Cap
- Cluster Bound
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Elastic Cloud console MFA and SAML-enforced organization login
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML, OIDC, and RBAC
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom domains and private endpoints on Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET, REST, Elasticsearch DSL
- Social Providers
- Google and corporate SSO for Elastic Cloud account management
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR on Enterprise tiers
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Watcher alerts and ingest pipelines with dead-letter index replay patterns
Insight: Elasticsearch
Use index lifecycle management to roll hot indices to warm tiers and control storage costs on long-retention log data.
OpenSearch
- Free Tier Allowance
- Open Source
- Rate Limit Cap
- Cluster Bound
- MFA Support
- Enforced via AWS IAM and OpenSearch dashboard access policies
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Supported on Amazon OpenSearch Service with SAML and Cognito federation
- Custom Domain Support
- VPC-bound domains with AWS PrivateLink and custom endpoint routing
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, .NET, REST, OpenSearch DSL
- Social Providers
- AWS IAM and corporate SSO for OpenSearch Service authentication
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA Eligible, PCI-DSS Compliant, FedRAMP Moderate
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Alerting plugins and event-driven indexing with configurable retry policies
Insight: OpenSearch
Enable k-NN vector search plugins early when building hybrid retrieval pipelines to avoid reindexing after traffic scales.