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Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.
What happened to Vector the last opensource they bought? Are they still hired?
Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.
Based on the [press release]( https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-quickwit/ ) it looks like they're hinting towards offering a 'self-hosted' model for customers that can't use pure SaaS solutions due to regulations: > Organizations in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must meet stringent data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements while maintaining full vis…
That makes sense. Datadog has been pure SaaS the whole time, which is unusual. Buying a good db engine like Quickwit would be a smart head-start into the on-prem segment which is a natural expansion opportunity.
I've previously made the prediction that Datadog is the new Cisco - can expect lots of acquisitions to be made going forward.
It'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/
(disclaimer: supabase employee) OrioleDB continues to be a fully open source and liberally licensed. We're working with the OrioleDB team to provide an initial distribution channel so they can focus on the storage engine vs hosting + providing lots of user feedback/bug reports. Our shared goal is to advance OrioleDB until it becomes the go-to storage engine for Postgres, both on Supabase and everywhere else. Happy to…
Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.
Based on the [press release]( https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-quickwit/ ) it looks like they're hinting towards offering a 'self-hosted' model for customers that can't use pure SaaS solutions due to regulations: > Organizations in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must meet stringent data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements while maintaining full vis…
Related: Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit (228 points, 6 months ago, 195 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935701 Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog (145 points, 1 year ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902042
Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on the [press release]( https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-quickwit/ ) it looks like they're hinting towards offering a 'self-hosted' model for customers that can't use pure SaaS solutions due to regulations: > Organizations in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must meet stringent data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements while maintaining full vis…
We switched from Datadog to Grafana (do not recommend unless they got you over a barrel on pricing and you need to escape) and one nice thing Grafana gives you is the ability to self-host for local development so you can even run integration tests against your observability... an edge case need but if you need it you're glad it has it.
Well, it looks like Quickwit was going to add an Enterprise license as of earlier this year (PR #5529), which I had been keeping eyes on, but this announcement says they're instead going to relicense as Apache 2.0 so the "community can continue on": > We will be focused on building a new product with Datadog, and to ensure our open-source community can continue, we will soon release a major update of both Quickwit wi…
They will stop fulltime day-to-day effort in it themselves, probably because they have been relocated to writing a similar service but closed and integrated in DD, but it seems they want to opensource the current product with a OSI compliant license in the hopes that the community picks up the tab.
I think that's a nice trade. Could have been much worse.
By the way, also note that DD is not a total stranger in the OSS space. They actually opensourced their observability pipeline tooling for general use as Vector, which is a rock solid product. - https://vector.dev/
I loved that I was able to setup Quickwit on AWS lambda and have a good cloud based search engine for $0.01 / month.
HN has been interwoven with Quickwit's journey from the very beginning. Looking back, it's striking to see how our progress is literally chronicled in our HN front-page posts:
- Searching the web for under $1000/month [0]
- A Rust optimization story [1]
- Decentralized cluster membership in Rust [2]
- Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512) [3]
- Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework [4]
- A compressed indexable bitset [5]
- Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog [6]
- Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale [7]
- Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene [8]
- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit [9]
- Datadog acquires Quickwit [10]
Each of these front-page appearances was a milestone for us. We put our hearts into writing those engineering articles, hoping to contribute something valuable to our community.
I'm convinced HN played a key role in Quickwit's success by providing visibility, positive feedback, critical comments, and leads that contacted us directly after a front-page post. This community's authenticity and passion for technology are unparalleled. And we're incredibly grateful for this.
Thank you all :)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955461
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190586
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674040
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785421
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519467
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902042
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756367
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492834