Search add-on in v 2.1

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#1

I have a couple of questions on the Search component add-on

  1. Is it mandatory to have Elasticsearch account (which is a commercial product) to use this add-on?
  2. Can we use the search addon to search menu items (useful for any large applications) like we had an option in CUBA? If yes, please share snippets.

regards

#4

Hi,

  1. You don’t have to subscribe to the commercial features of Elasticserach to use it as a search engine in Jmix.
  2. Currently, it is better to use TextField to search through the menu.
    Here is some info on how to do this: Menu search
    We are also working on implementing this as an out-of-the-box feature: Search in main menu · Issue #1244 · jmix-framework/jmix · GitHub

Regards,
Alex

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#5

Question 1 is a very good question.
Here is the comparison between the editions:
https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions
We can see that on the free column, there is nice (1) and (2).
It leads to a licensing FAQ
https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing

Among other things, my understanding is this:

  • you can download and install Elastic, and develop your app free of charge
  • Elastic is not OSI Open Source - they have their own elastic license that applies by default if you download a binary from them, and there is an optional SSPL license if you build it from the source
  • you can not use it for free if you have a commercial SaaS product

Is it possible to download Elastic, include it with your Jmix application using Jmix addon, and deliver it to a commercial customer without paying Elastic, using their free edition?

The answer to that is not so clear at all, and I would definitely spend a long time reading and researching all this and making sure if I were to use it. For example, if you use the multitenancy add-on, would it make your application Saas?

Definitely, it is a great thing that Jmix has an add-on for Elastic, but I would feel better if the add-on would work with an Amazon fork of Elastic, https://github.com/opensearch-project

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#6

Thanks for your feedback.
We’ve made some analysis about implementing support for OpenSearch: https://github.com/jmix-framework/jmix/issues/2094. It looks promising.

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