> so tired of Elastic just randomly killing their clusters out of nowhere and having to spend basically triple to deal with it that they're bringing it all in house.
That is because Elastic Cloud is not a fully managed Elasticsearch. People often don't get that with Elastic Cloud you are still responsible for your ES cluster. That's one of the differentiators that e.g. Sematext has (disclaimer: founder).
> AWS's hosted solution is poor, Logz.io and ElasticCloud are expensive.
Right. Have a look at https://sematext.com/logsene pricing. People say Sematext compares favorably to Logz.io and Elastic Cloud.
At Sematext we help companies with Apache Solr and Elasticsearch. ES/ELK is definitely used mode for timeseries sort of data. Solr community puts more focus on full-text search (email search, product search, database search, etc.). Elasticsearch can do that, too, and we regularly help companies who use ES for that, but Solr seems more focused on that use case.
Great to see Java 12 (and the shorter release cycles) but how quickly do people actually move to newer Java? Here's a poll with some results: https://twitter.com/otisg/status/1108093046397247488
(still open, please vote so there is more data)
You would think so, but that is not how it works with Elastic and lots of it customers. I have heard that from N of their (ex-)customers. I get why this happens for them. There is a certain vision and goal, and anything that doesn't align is a nuisance. This is part business part philosophy, culture, and brand you want to build in and around your business.
WDYT:
Would it have been better for AWS to initiate Open Distro for ES as part of e.g. Apache Software Foundation, whose mantra is "community over code"?
(or if not ASF for some reason, then Eclipse or CNCF for example)
Here is one good comparison from Sematext (Sematext provides both Solr and Elasticsearch consulting, support, and training, so we are familiar with both Solr and ES and have no horse in the race):
I wonder why you say that? It's kind of obvious that somebody was going to do it sooner or later to protect themselves, no? Perhaps fearing the license change?