elastic/elasticsearch vs opensearch-project/opensearch
opensearch-project/opensearch shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, opensearch shows healthier maintenance signals than elasticsearch. opensearch rates Healthy overall while elasticsearch rates Mixed. elasticsearch was committed to 3 weeks ago with 54+ active contributors, while opensearch was committed to 3 weeks ago with 59+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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elastic/elasticsearch
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓54+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 17% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
opensearch-project/opensearch
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓59+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| elasticsearch | opensearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 77,852 | 13,559 |
| Last commit | 26d ago | 26d ago |
| License | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 5,890 | 3,112 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | 82% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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