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Elasticsearch is based off lucene so they are making money off another open source project.


Technically true, but practically different.

Lucene is the core piece but %-wise the minority of the ES product.

There's no Lucene "competitor" to Elasticsearch.


> There's no Lucene "competitor" to Elasticsearch.

Apache Solr, which existed long before Elasticsearch was conceived.


Solr is a separate product. It is also an Apache project, though so are a million other projects.

It also doesn't even have a commercial offering; Elasticsearch in no way affects any financial ambitions.




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