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

Apache Doris compute-storage decoupled mode achieves 90% cost reduction and provides elasticity and workload isolation, while maintaining high performance in data ingestion and queries.