vioscaleAI
Comparison

Elasticsearch vs Quickwit

On the evidence we track, Elasticsearch leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Elasticsearch full profile →Quickwit full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
★Elasticsearch73
Quickwit53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elasticsearch73 / 100medium · 58%
Quickwit53 / 100medium · 55%
Pricing
Free tier
Elasticsearch✗
Quickwit✓
Model
Elasticsearchcommercial
Quickwitcommercial
Price level
Elasticsearchhigh
Quickwitfree
Starting price
Elasticsearch$99
Quickwit–
Transparent
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit–
Integrations
Count
Elasticsearch350
Quickwit18
Security
Gdpr
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
Scorecard
Elasticsearch6.4
Quickwit6.6
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Elasticsearch99.95
Quickwit–
Status page
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elasticsearch18,551
Quickwit2
Github stars
Elasticsearch78,195
Quickwit11,712
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elasticsearch100
Quickwit46
Release
Cadence days
Elasticsearch1
Quickwit28
History
Elasticsearch20 items
Quickwit20 items
License
Spdx
Elasticsearch–
QuickwitApache-2.0
Language
Primary
ElasticsearchJava
QuickwitRust
Market
Availability
ElasticsearchAvailable worldwide · Popular in US
Quickwit–
Content
Faq
Elasticsearch7 items
Quickwit6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for search engines. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
ElasticsearchSelf-hosted
QuickwitSelf-hosted
Architecture
Index engine
ElasticsearchLucene
QuickwitTantivy
Query
Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)
ElasticsearchES|QL
QuickwitElasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST
Faceting & filtering
ElasticsearchYes
QuickwitYes
Geo search
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit-
Relevance
Typo tolerance / fuzzy
ElasticsearchBuilt-in
Quickwit-
Relevance tuning
ElasticsearchLearning-to-rank
Quickwit-
Vector
Vector / hybrid search
ElasticsearchDense + lexical fusion
Quickwit-
Scale
Distributed / horizontal scale
ElasticsearchSharded
QuickwitSharded
Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
Ingest
Real-time indexing
ElasticsearchNear-real-time
QuickwitNear-real-time
Workload
Log / analytics workload
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
Licensing
Licence class
ElasticsearchSource-available (SSPL / Elastic)
QuickwitPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elasticsearch

Leader

A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs.

Independently observed

Quickwit

Distributed search engine optimized to run on cloud object storage, providing fast query performance for observability use cases including logs and traces.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elasticsearch

Leader
from $99/moSubscription14-day trial

From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.

  • Standard$99/month
    • Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP
    • ES|QL query language and APIs
    • Default monitoring and AutoOps
    • Alerting with detection engine
    • Malware prevention
    • +6 more
  • Gold$114/month
    • All Standard features
    • Reporting
    • Third-party alerting actions
    • Watcher
    • Multi-stack monitoring
    • +3 more
  • Platinum$131/month with SLA
    • All Gold features
    • Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)
    • Vector search with ELSER and e5 models
    • Cross-cluster replication
    • Log categorization
    • +5 more
  • Enterprise$184/month
    • All Platinum features
    • Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
    • Elastic Maps Server
    • Cross-cluster search with ES|QL
    • ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)
    • +13 more
as of verify ↗

Quickwit

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✗
macOS
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✗
Windows
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✗
Linux
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✗
CLI
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
Self-hosted
Elasticsearch✓
Quickwit✓
On-premise
Elasticsearch✗
Quickwit✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • Grafana
  • AWS S3

Elasticsearch

Leader
43 total - 41 not shared
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • IBM Resilient
  • xMatters
  • GitHub
  • Jina AI
  • NVIDIA AI
  • Prometheus
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Sarvam AI
  • Google ADK
  • LlamaParse
  • Mistral
  • Elastic Agent
  • Beats
  • Logstash
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat
  • Heartbeat
  • Webhooks
  • S3
  • +17 more
Independently observed

Quickwit

22 total - 20 not shared
  • AWS Lambda
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Kafka
  • SQS
  • Elasticsearch
  • Jaeger
  • Trino
  • OTLP
  • Kinesis
  • Pulsar
  • OpenSearch
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Vector
  • Fluent Bit
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • MinIO
  • Ceph
  • ClickHouse
  • Syslog
Independently observed
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