Quickwit
Sub-second search & analytics engine on cloud storage
- Also known as
- quickwit
What is Quickwit?
Quickwit is a search and analytics engine that executes complex queries directly on cloud storage with sub-second latency. Optimized for log management and distributed tracing with a Rust-based, decoupled compute-storage architecture.
What Quickwit does
The capabilities that matter for search engines, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Index engine
- Tantivy
- Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)
- -
- Faceting & filtering
- -
- Geo search
- -
- Typo tolerance / fuzzy
- -
- Relevance tuning
- -
- Vector / hybrid search
- -
- Distributed / horizontal scale
- Sharded
- Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)
- ✓
- Real-time indexing
- -
- Log / analytics workload
- ✓
- Licence class
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Kafka
- Kinesis
- S3
- MinIO
- Ceph
- OpenTelemetry
- Jaeger
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Quickwit alternatives
Other search engines we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VespaAI Search at Scalelow · 23%
- VespaAI Search at Scalelow · 26%
- MeilisearchOne platform to build, scale, and unify search and AI retrievallow · 46%
- BleveModern indexing & search for Golow · 15%
- Manticore Searcheasy-to-use fast search databaselow · 37%
- OpenSearchA powerful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucenelow · 19%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Quickwit, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Github Activity | 50 | 20.00 | 994.7 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 77 | 12.00 | 920.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 17.00 | 778.9 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 77 | 7.00 | 535.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 8.00 | 230.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 37 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 11,439 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"tantivy","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Rust | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | lowsource · 2026-08-01 · 40% |
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 42 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |