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elasticsearchvsOpenELIS Global

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

elasticsearchOpenELIS Global
Score84/10054/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#3 of 5 in Healthcare
GitHub stars78 428278
Stars, last 30 days+448+0
Stable releases, 12 months328
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 20263.3.0 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherMPL-2.0
Main languageJavaJava

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 54/100 for OpenELIS Global, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for OpenELIS Global.

If you want the quickest setup, OpenELIS Global is easier to run; elasticsearch needs more configuration.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+448 stars in 30 days).

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