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Quickwit
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Quickwit Enterprise License
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Enterprise license; page’s example includes estimated infrastructure and license costs for 1 TB/day ingestion and 30-day retention
Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
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- Architecture
- Quickwit decouples compute and storage and uses stateless indexers and searchers.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Company update
- Quickwit announced in January 2025 that it was joining Datadog while planning an Apache 2.0 release for the open-source community.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Quickwit can run as a single node or as a multi-node cluster, and is distributed as a binary or Docker image with a Helm chart for Kubernetes.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment limit
- The file-backed metastore does not support multiple instances running at the same time; the documentation recommends PostgreSQL for heavy workloads.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment limitation
- A file-backed metastore does not support multiple instances running at the same time; the documentation recommends PostgreSQL for heavy workloads.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Ingestion integrations
- Documented ingestion sources include its Ingest API, local files, Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, and S3 files using SQS notifications; log shippers such as OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, and Vector can also send data.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Installation platforms
- Quickwit provides Linux and macOS binaries, a Docker image, a Helm chart, and Glasskube installation; Linux is its only officially supported operating system.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Log ingestion
- Quickwit provides a REST API for JSON-formatted logs and supports OpenTelemetry gRPC and HTTP protobuf protocols.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- The introduction says Quickwit is a poor fit for low-latency e-commerce search and mutable data.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Quickwit describes its software as open and free, and its installation page lists the Apache 2.0 license.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Platform support
- Quickwit is officially supported only on Linux; macOS and FreeBSD are not officially supported but should work, and binaries are provided for Linux and macOS.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Quickwit is an open-source distributed search engine designed for search and analytics on large datasets stored on cloud storage.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Scalability
- The documentation says Quickwit is designed as a horizontally scalable distributed system with indexer, searcher, metastore, control plane, and janitor services.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Search
- Quickwit supports full-text search and aggregation queries, Elasticsearch query language support, and sub-second search on cloud storage.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- The product overview lists support for infrequent targeted deletions for GDPR use cases.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- The homepage lists support for infrequent, targeted deletions for GDPR use cases.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Storage and compute
- Quickwit separates compute from storage and supports shared storage such as Amazon S3 or MinIO for cluster deployments.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Storage integrations
- Supported storage providers include Amazon S3 and S3-compatible services, Azure Blob Storage, local files, and Google Cloud Storage.quickwit.io · read 9 Oct 2026
