On October 24 ("1024"), a day that resonates with tech enthusiasts, the Apache Doris community came together for an engaging meetup in Singapore. It was a great opportunity for data enthusiasts and professionals to connect, share insights, and explore the latest developments in the world of big data and analytics.

Dear community members, the Apache Doris 3.0.4 version was officially released on February 28, 2025, this version introduces continuous upgrades and enhancements in several key areas, including Lakehouse, Storage Efficiency, Compute-Storage Separation, Query Optimizer and Asynchronous Materialized Views, and more.

Apache Doris is a real-time data warehouse commonly used for observability, cyber security analysis, online reports, customer profiles, data lakehouse and more. Elasticsearch is more like a search engine, but it is also widely used for data analytics, so there's an overlap in their use cases. The comparison in this post will focus on the real-time analytics capabilities of Apache Doris and Elasticsearch from a user-oriented perspective: