# Is Meilisearch a viable upgrade alternative to OpenSearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/is-meilisearch-a-viable-upgrade-alternative-to-opensearch/12400>\
**Category:** Architecture\
**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/is-meilisearch-a-viable-upgrade-alternative-to-opensearch/12400 "2024-02-27T20:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![blarghmatey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/blarghmatey/32/1632_2.png) [@blarghmatey](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/blarghmatey)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/is-meilisearch-a-viable-upgrade-alternative-to-opensearch/12400/10 "2024-03-04T16:48:44Z")

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One thing that is worth noting about Meilisearch is that it seems to only allow high availability mode in their hosted cloud service. In their comparison matrix, under [deployment](https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/what_is_meilisearch/comparison_to_alternatives#deployment) it shows high availability as “available with Meilisearch Cloud”.

Overall it seems like a promising product, but for anyone running a non-trivial deployment of Open edX it would force them into using their hosted product. In general that may not be a show-stopper, but I can imagine there are cases where that would prevent someone from using Open edX.

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