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OpenSearchvssentora-core

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OpenSearchsentora-core
Score76/10049/100
Rank in category#7 of 41 in Search Engines#8 of 10 in Control Panel
GitHub stars13 930676
Stars, last 30 days+155+0
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest release2.19.7 · 17 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPHP

Which one should you pick?

OpenSearch scores 76/100 against 49/100 for sentora-core, so it is the safer default.

OpenSearch ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sentora-core.

OpenSearch is growing faster right now (+155 stars in 30 days).

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