# Bleve vs Quickwit

| Attribute | Bleve | Quickwit |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 51.5 (49% (low)) | 54.4 (52% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 12 | 51 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 685 | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,187 | 11,547 |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A library that enables Go developers to embed powerful text, numeric, geospatial, and vector search capabilities directly into their applications through a simple API. | Open-source search engine and log analytics platform with real-time indexing, distributed deployment, and Elasticsearch API compatibility. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"Query string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"single_node","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":false,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","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 | - | 9 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"SQS"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"OTLP"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | Rust |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://blevesearch.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:46.052Z"}` | `{"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 | 66 | 28 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.scorecard | 6.6 | 7.4 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fblevesearch%2Fbleve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=quickwit-telemetry&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Bleve | Quickwit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | Custom | Tantivy |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | Query string syntax with term, phrase, match, prefix, fuzzy, range, and compound | Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | - |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | Built-in | - |
| Relevance tuning | BM25 only | - |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | Dense + lexical fusion | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Distributed / horizontal scale | Single-node | 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:37:59.658Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*