For what it's worth a gg-tends comparison between solr (the main ES competitor I know of) and ES itself. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=elasticsearch%2

For what it's worth a gg-tends comparison between solr (the main ES competitor I know of) and ES itself. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=elasticsearch%2C%20solr&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=elasticsearch%2C%20so... TLDR; they are roughly equal in popularity according to gg-tends, ES growing very fast.