# Manticore Search vs Quickwit

| Attribute | Manticore Search | Quickwit |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 50.4 (55% (medium)) | 53.1 (55% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 95 | 46 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | 12,056 | 11,712 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 2,184 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A fast, resource-efficient open-source database for searching large datasets and vector search. It significantly outperforms Elasticsearch while requiring minimal computational resources, and integrates with tools like Kafka and Kibana. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"What is Manticore Search?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Manticore Search is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the GPL-3.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"Is Manticore Search free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Manticore Search supports Linux. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"What platforms does Manticore Search support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Manticore Search can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"Can Manticore Search be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 5 integrations for Manticore Search, including Kafka, Logstash, Beats, Kibana and GitHub. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"What does Manticore Search integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Manticore Search is published under the GPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch","question":"Is Manticore Search open source?","confidence":0.67},{"answer":"Manticore Search is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United Kingdom.","source":"https://manticoresearch.com/","question":"Where is Manticore Search available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Open-source search engine and log analytics platform with real-time indexing, distributed deployment, and Elasticsearch API compatibility. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://quickwit.io","question":"What is Quickwit?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Quickwit is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://quickwit.io","question":"Is Quickwit free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Quickwit supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://quickwit.io","question":"What platforms does Quickwit support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Quickwit can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://quickwit.io","question":"Can Quickwit be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Quickwit, including AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Kafka, SQS, Elasticsearch, Jaeger and Trino, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://quickwit.io","question":"What does Quickwit integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Quickwit is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit","question":"Is Quickwit open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source database that combines full-text, semantic vector, hybrid, and conversational search capabilities, deployable on your own servers and queryable via SQL or HTTP APIs. | Distributed search engine optimized to run on cloud object storage, providing fast query performance for observability use cases including logs and traces. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"SQL","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST","deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"tantivy","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` |
| integrations.count | 5 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"OpenSearch Dashboards","category":"analytics"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"SQS"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"OTLP"},{"name":"Kinesis","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Pulsar","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenSearch","native":false,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true},{"name":"Vector","native":false,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fluent Bit","native":false,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Grafana","native":false,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":false},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false},{"name":"MinIO","category":"cloud_storage","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Ceph","category":"cloud_storage","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ClickHouse","category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Syslog","category":"log_transport","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | C++ | Rust |
| license.spdx | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"100% open-source. Professional services and enterprise support plans available.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://manticoresearch.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:39.090Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://quickwit.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:50:18.609Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 29 | 28 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 3.8 | 6.6 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmanticoresoftware%2Fmanticoresearch&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=quickwit-indexing&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Manticore Search | Quickwit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | Custom | Tantivy |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | SQL | Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | - |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | Built-in | - |
| Relevance tuning | - | - |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | Dense + lexical fusion | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Distributed / horizontal scale | Sharded | Sharded |
| Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants) | - | ✓ |
| **Ingest** |  |  |
| Real-time indexing | Near-real-time | Near-real-time |
| **Workload** |  |  |
| Log / analytics workload | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T04:23:21.119Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*