Does Pega support OpenSearch in place of Elastic Search?

AleMax225 · April 28, 2023, 2:02pm

According to our understanding the target deployment mode of Pega platform will require the externalization of the Elastic Search component.

I would like to know if in the Pega evolution roadmap is foreseen the support to OpenSearch in place of Elastic Search.

subrs6 · May 2, 2023, 6:55am

@AleMax225

Hi,

I believe you are talking about the Search externalization using Search and Reporting service and external Elasticsearch.

As you may have seen SRS is a micro service that can be deployed, upgraded independent to Pega Infinity Platform.

SRS is currently certified to support Elasticsearch (versions 7.17), you can refer to SRS helm charts for information about latest versions supported by SRS.

github.com/pegasystems/pega-helm-charts

charts/backingservices/charts/srs/README.md

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# Search and Reporting Service Helm chart

The Pega `Search and Reporting Service` or `SRS` backing service provides the search and reporting capabilities of Pega Infinity Platform. To use it in your deployment, you provision and deploy it independently as an external service in a Pega Infinity environment.

## Configuring a backing service with your pega environment

You can provision this SRS into your `pega` environment namespace, with the SRS endpoint configured with the Pega Infinity environment. When you include the SRS into your pega namespace, the service endpoint is included within your Pega Infinity environment network to ensure isolation of your application data.

## Search and Reporting Service support

The Search and Reporting Service provides next generation search and reporting capabilities for Pega Infinity 8.6 and later.

This service replaces the legacy search module from the platform with an independently deployable and scalable service along with the built-in capabilities to support more than one Pega environments with its data isolation features in Pega Infinity 8.6 and later.
The service deployment provisions runtime service pods along with a dependency on a backing technology ElasticSearch service for storage and retrieval of data.

### SRS Version compatibility matrix

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To your question about support for Opensearch, internally the product team will evaluate such feasibility and based on priorities as well as requests from multiple customers, this can be taken up in future. Please do watch out the SRS helm charts for the latest supported versions of Search technology.

FlorianB1448 · May 25, 2023, 11:27am

@subrs6 we would also be greatly interested in a support for OpenSearch, since we already have an environment as well as ressources and skill in place. This would greatly benefit us and thus result in a faster adoption of the current Pega deployment model.

Venkat2929 · November 17, 2023, 2:42am

@subrs6 @Santhosh_Holla we have exactly similar requirement in Commonwealth Bank(CBA). We are planning to leverage OpenSearch for search functionality. Could you please evaluate and guide us whether it is supported now as part of the stack.

UsmanN17108631 · April 16, 2024, 10:54am

Generally, Organization prefer to stay the platform/cloud provider locked without opting for the external third party or marketplace components.

Example for aws:

Eks for pega
Ecr for images
Aurora postgres for sql db
Opensearch for elastic search *
Msk - for kafka
Keyspaces - for casssandra *

limited support is available with pega for client managed cloud envs.

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