it depends a lot on how you are using them tools wise. as a sharding database for document storage they are nearly equivalent. when it comes to ecosystem opensearch's is smaller and a bit more specialized but very open. elasticsearch has a lot more fancy enterprise tooling and tools but can be annoying to work with unless you have a full license for all the features. it's better to ask what is your use case/expectations and choose based on that.
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