# OpenSearch vs Quickwit

| Attribute | OpenSearch | Quickwit |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 54.3 (47% (low)) | 53.1 (55% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 46 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 223 | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | 13,873 | 11,712 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source search and observability suite that enables enterprises to search, analyze, and monitor unstructured data. It combines full-text search, machine learning, real-time log analysis, and security analytics capabilities in an integrated platform. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://opensearch.org","question":"What is OpenSearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenSearch 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://opensearch.org","question":"Is OpenSearch free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenSearch supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://opensearch.org","question":"What platforms does OpenSearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. OpenSearch can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://opensearch.org","question":"Can OpenSearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. OpenSearch 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/opensearch-project/OpenSearch","question":"Is OpenSearch open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"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 Apache 2.0-licensed, vendor-neutral search and analytics platform that enables indexing, searching, visualization, and analysis of data across applications and infrastructure. | Distributed search engine optimized to run on cloud object storage, providing fast query performance for observability use cases including logs and traces. |
| features.capabilities | `{"query_dsl":"SQL, PPL","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":false,"distributed":"sharded","licence_class":"source_available","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","relevance_tuning":"bm25_only","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 | 1 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Data Prepper"}]` | `[{"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 | Java | Rust |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://opensearch.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:26:16.076Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://quickwit.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:50:18.609Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 29 | 28 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.6 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.opensearch.client%3Aopensearch-rest-high-level-client&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 | OpenSearch | Quickwit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | - | Tantivy |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | SQL, PPL | Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST |
| Faceting & filtering | - | Yes |
| Geo search | ✗ | - |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | - | - |
| Relevance tuning | BM25 only | - |
| **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 | Source-available (SSPL / Elastic) | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T10:38:09.779Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*