Fess Up: Elasticsearch Is a Threat to Proprietary Search and Retrieval
December 1, 2020
We have been poking around the world of Elasticsearch-based information retrieval systems. There are some interesting plays; that is, entrepreneurs use Elasticsearch (Shay Banon’s open source system) as a platform.
Fess provides Elasticsearch for personal use, although one can employ the system for an organization. The system is:
Fess is Elasticsearch-based search server, but knowledge/experience about Elasticsearch is NOT needed because of All-in-One Enterprise Search Server. Fess provides Administration GUI to configure the system on your browser. Fess also contains a crawler, which can crawl documents on Web/File System/DB and support many file formats, such as MS Office, pdf and zip.
Fess became available in 2019. The CEO of the N2SM, Inc. company is Masaharu Manabe. Demonstrations and links to the code are available at this link. A fee-based version of the software is provided under the name N2 Search. More information about the for fee version is here. A discussion forum is available at this link.
Observation: The Elasticsearch ecosystem is providing alternatives to the proprietary search systems. Beyond Search thinks that some vendors of proprietary search software are likely to be see Elasticsearch as digital kudzu. Good news or bad news for the Coveos, Fabasofts, and Microsoft Fast type folks? That’s a question some of these types of vendors stakeholders may be asking as they beat the bushes for deals in customer service, chatbots, business intelligence, and smart software services.
Stephen E Arnold, December 1, 2020
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