Go: ElasticSearch Clients Study Case

Illustration created for “A Journey With Go”, made from the original Go Gopher, created by Renee French.

Choosing a package to consume ElasticSearch is the first step when setting a project up that uses it. This choice could impact the performance of your application if it is an important part of your workflow. However, there are few options with Go for this case: olivere/elastic is the most famous one, and the elastic/go-elasticsearch is the official client. Let’s review the pros and cons of each package.