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quickwit-oss / quickwit

quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

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37Mentions
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Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

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Observed mentions: 2021-07-15 10:37:17 UTC to 2025-08-08 17:12:37 UTC.

0510152021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 4 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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onic Algolia https://github.com/marconi1992/algolite https://quickwit.io/ https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit https://docs.meilisearch.com/ https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc phalanx https://github.com/blugelabs/bluge https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx https://github.com/mosuka/blast ManticoreSearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/docker https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el... https://manticoresearch.com/ https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Introduction https://forum.manticoresearch.com/t/manticore-search-cheatsh... https://forum.manticoresearch.com/ Whoosh https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://pypi.org/project/Whoosh/ lyra https://github.com/nearform/lyra https://nearform.github.io/lyra/ https://github.com/LyraSearch/lyra https://lyrasearch.io/ flexsearch https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#performance-benchm... https://pagefind.app/docs/ Lucene https://github.com/apache/lucene https://lucene.apache.org/ ZincSearch https://zincsearch.com/ Solr https://solr.apache.org/ https://solr.apache.org/operator/ https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/getting-started/so... https://github.com/apache/solr https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/s... Konnu https://gitlab.com/shadowislord/konnu Quickwit QuickWit + Clickhouse https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/guides/developer/full-text-se... https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/functions/strin... There is no way I can get to running all of these (this project was supposed to be quick!!), but I will run the ones I noted earlier, and probably manticore too since it was high on my list since it's quite polished looking.
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
I wish we had an extension like ZomboDB but using a lighter search engine like https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit, https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi and https://github.com/mosuka/bayard Here I'm listing engines based on https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - tantivy is comparable to Lucene in its scope - but I'm sure there are other engines that could tackle ElasticSearch. Another thing that could happen is maybe directly embed tantivy in Postgres using an extension, perhaps this could be an option too.
In Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest
(disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounder of Quickwit.io, we are doing log search) (edited to add vector search category and add manticore) When looking at OSS search projects, it's nice to have a rough ideas of the different use cases, here is the list I have in mind: - user facing search (think algolia): elasticsearch[1]/opensearch[2], meilisearch[3], typesense[4] - enterprise search: elasticsearch/opensearch - log search: elasticsearch/opensearch, loki[5], quickwit[6], zincsearch[7] - vector search: Milvus[8], Qdrant[9], Vald[10] Weaviate[11] Vespa.ai[12] is great but I don't really know in which category to put them, user facing and enterprise search seems to work well with them. It's interesting to note that Elasticsearch and Opensearch are general purpose search engine, Solr as well. They are all powered by Lucene, the popular and per
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In ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go
Quickwit | 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 developing backend services should be second nature. Our search engine is coded in Rust and the following features are on our roadmap: - distributed indexing - aggregations (min, max, count, sum, avg, ...) for search queries - gossip protocol for cluster formation We bring particular attention to high performance, high reliability, and code quality. Learn more and apply at https://quickwit.io/jobs/distributed-software-engineer
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Awesome. I've tried MeiliSearch and it is very easy to set up and use. It works very well for less than a million of data. The only let down for me is their very slow indexing speed when it comes to millions to tens of millions of data (personal experience, also experienced by other users in their public slack workspace). Other competitors / alternatives: - https://github.com/typesense/typesense - https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic A decent feature-by-feature comparison: - https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-... If you guys know other open-source competitors / alternatives, I'd love to check those out!
In Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search

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