We are thrilled to announce that Quickwit is joining Datadog! We will be heads down building a new product with Datadog, so to ensure our open-source

Quickwit joins Datadog

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2025-01-09 18:00:07

We are thrilled to announce that Quickwit is joining Datadog! We will be heads down building a new product with Datadog, so to ensure our open-source community can continue on, we will soon release a new version of Quickwit under the Apache License 2.0. Stay tuned!

It all began with a decade-long friendship between three engineers—Paul, Adrien, and me—who first met in Paris in 2010. Back then, we'd sit in our favorite gyoza restaurant—the gyoza bar, it still exists. We would typically go there after attending an event called Start in Paris, where rookie founders came to pitch their startup ideas. Think Dragon’s Den with a mustache. There, we would dream about building something revolutionary together. But dreams remained dreams until 2020 when Paul called us to talk about his pet project, tantivy. The pet had sharp teeth - it was already a popular alternative to Lucene.

We knew we had to build something together within minutes in that call. The problem emerged naturally: Elasticsearch wasn't scaling effectively and had become too costly and complex to manage. Our mission crystallized: creating a search engine that would be at least 10x more cost-efficient, scale to multiple petabytes while letting operators sleep peacefully at night, and be significantly easier to manage—the dream of thousands of engineers operating Elasticsearch clusters.