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Quickwit Blog
Company blog · quickwit.io/blog · on HN as francoismassotprogrammingdata
Quickwit Blog is the company blog at quickwit.io, writing about programming and data. Since 2021, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “Open-Source and Cloud-Native Log Management at Any Scale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link quickwit.io as the Quickwit product page or docs, a search engine for logs and traces on object storage. The blog posts themselves are not discussed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sub-second search & analytics engine on cloud storage
Most-linked posts?
- Open-Source and Cloud-Native Log Management at Any Scale6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- When allocating unused memory boosts performance by 2x4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-21
- Benchmarking Quickwit vs. Loki3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-18
- How to investigate memory usage of your rust program3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
- Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19
- Datadog acquires Quickwit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
- WhichLang: Language Detection Library in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-19
- A new search engine in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-15
- Why we tweaked Roaring Bitmaps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
What Hacker News says?
You can have a look at Quickwit ( https://quickwit.io ), it's a search engine made for logs :). It's still pretty young and... there are way less features than in ES. (disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounder)
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on “Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend”Submitted Searching the web for under $1000/month as a story · 456 points
HN discussionOh! Damn it I forgot about manticore -- I had seen it before but forgot to include it. Eventually all of these projects will be highlighted on Awesome F/OSS ( https://awsmfoss.com ), but for now I'm just going to dump my bookmarks here for other people, since I'm leaving awesome projects out: Search Engines AWS OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSear…
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on “Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend”Submitted Datadog acquires Quickwit as a story · 296 points
HN discussionQuickwit | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (Europe, Middle East, Asia) | Full-time Quickwit is the next-gen open-source search engine for logs at petabyte-scale data - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit . We are looking for an engineering generalist with extensive experience writing Rust code and leading technical architecture. Working with large data sets, dealing with complex distributed systems, and devel…
Comment linking /jobs/distributed-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit as a story · 228 points
HN discussionQuickwit | Senior Rust engineer | Remote (EU, ASIA) | https://quickwit.io Quickwit is building the next-generation open-source search engine for petabyte-scale data. We are also behind tantivy, the Rust search engine library that has rallied a great community of users since its inception. We are looking for an engineering generalist with extensive experience writing Rust code and leading technical architecture. Work…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted A Rust optimization story as a story · 192 points
HN discussionSounds like a source-unavailable version of Quickwit? https://quickwit.io/
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on “Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage”Submitted Decentralized cluster membership in Rust as a story · 169 points
HN discussionCan I get your use case? What is the data you have to index? If it's logs, indeed, Meilisearch will not be the best fit. I would recommend https://quickwit.io . If it's structured or unstructured data, even if 10TB seems huge for our use cases, I would love to put you in contact with my engineering team. We would find a way to manage it.
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on “Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest”Submitted Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale as a story · 115 points
HN discussionQuickWit also sends telemetry by default: https://quickwit.io/docs/telemetry
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on “Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene”Submitted Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512) as a story · 104 points
HN discussionFound recently Tantivy inside of ParadeDB (Postgres extension aiming to replace Elastic) https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/dev/pg_search/Carg... after listening Extending Postgres for High Performance Analytics (with Philippe Noël) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbOAEJrsbaM And inside of the main thing - Quickwit(logs, traces, and soon metrics) https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit Had a surprisingly goo…
Comment linking /docs/guides/add-full-text-search-to-your-olap-db
on “Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene”Submitted Quickwit 0.3 Released: Schemaless Indexing, Aggregations, Embedded UI, and More as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThe architecture of Husky seems fairly similar to quickwit. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky... https://quickwit.io/docs/main-branch/overview/architecture
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on “Datadog acquires Quickwit”Submitted Quickwit 0.2 brings full-text search to ClickHouse and Kafka as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIt's a bit sad that many modern databases were recently acquired. They had the potential to bring a lot of innovations. 1. https://www.warpstream.com/ 2. https://www.orioledb.com/ 3. https://quickwit.io/
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on “Datadog acquires Quickwit”Submitted Quickwit: A highly cost-efficient search engine in Rust as a story · 16 points
HN discussionQuickwit is an alternative with a strong focus on scalability (max we have seen is 40PB) with a decoupled compute and storage architecture. But we do only logs and traces for now. Repository: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit Latest release: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.8
Comment linking /blog/quickwit-0.8
on “Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative”Submitted When allocating unused memory boosts performance by 2x as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJust browsing the Quickwit documentation it seems like the general architecture here is to write JSON logs but stores them compressed. Is this just something like gzip compression? 20% compressed size does seem to align to ballpark estimates of JSON GZIP compression. This is what Quickwit (and this page) calls a "document": a single JSON record (just FYI). Additionally you need to store indices because this is what…
Comment linking /docs/overview/concepts/indexing
on “Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit”Submitted Rust Lambda cold start and search on 7GB of JSON < 1s as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAs the Docusaurus site maintainer, I believe MkDocs is great (and probably simpler) but our plugin system is more powerful, MDX/React makes it easier to make the docs interactive, and we have more flexibility for theming. See the carousel of site screenshots here: https://docusaurus.io/blog/2022/08/01/announcing-docusaurus-... I'm curious to see highly customized MkDocs sites that truly respect your branding. What I…
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on “Docusaurus 2.0”Submitted How to investigate memory usage of your rust program as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA search index is often made of smaller independent pieces often called segments. So you can download & process progressively the data locally and upload it to an object storage. And run queries on it. That's what we did here for this project: https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl Also an interesting blog post here: https://fulmicoton.com/posts/commoncrawl/
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on “Writing your own search engine is hard (2004)”Submitted When allocating unused memory boosts performance by 2x as a story · 4 points
HN discussionQuickwit was bought by Datadog, so I feel there's some risk quickwit-oss becomes unmaintained if Datadog's corporate priority shifts in the future, or OSS maintenance stops providing return on investment. Based on the Quickwit blog post, they are relicensing to Apache2 and releasing some enterprise features, so it seems very possible the original maintainers will move to other things, and it's unclear if enough comm…
Comment linking /blog/quickwit-joins-datadog
on “Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search”Submitted Benchmarking Quickwit vs. Loki as a story · 4 points
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