Datadog acquires Quickwit • Hacker News Board

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by thebruce87m » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 8:22 AM UTC

scop wrote: post #30

I hate Datadog. We use their name as an epithet at our company for how not to sell/market. Their selling tactics circa 2015-2018 completely burned us out. Endless calls and emails. The icing on the cake was an AWS reInvent presentation on Lambda right when lambda was first announced. We were pumped to get in on lambda early. Got the whole crew to attend the talk. Turned out to be a rudimentary copy of a Barr "lambda…

Agreed. Once they had a whiff of our domain every engineer was being bombarded with emails like “Re: meeting next week”.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by bomewish » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 9:14 AM UTC

propter_hoc wrote: post #59

> This summer, the wind started to turn. We witnessed stronger open-source traction, our revenue increased dramatically, and VCs became more insistent. It was time for us to open a new chapter for the company and raise a series A round. Rhetorically, why was it time for this? Practically, the answer is right there: the VCs wouldn't accept a mere rapidly-growing company with great tech. It's either an up round so they…

Practically, what happens if the founders don’t want to play ball? VCs can muscle up and force a sale on worse terms? Just not clear how much of what goes on is asking nicely vs coercion, and where the actual leverage lies.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by rizky05 » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 9:17 AM UTC

iandanforth wrote: post #26

jhgg wrote: post #21

Hoping this leads to datadog launching a logging solution that does not cost an arm and a leg at scale.

Honestly this is my only criticism of datadog. The product is great but good lord that pricing.

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Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by morelish » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 9:20 AM UTC

How much did they get acquired for?

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by seaghost » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 10:53 AM UTC

Sqreen was a great product for startups. Unfortunately acquired by the Datadog. Product was never fully integrated into their offerings and there is no such alternative.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by gigatexal » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 12:25 PM UTC

Come on this is HN, the news / link aggregator of a VC: tell us how much the exit was in $$$ ;-)

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by ed_mercer » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 12:49 PM UTC

tdubey wrote: post #32

liminal wrote: post #29

We just moved from Elastic to Quickwit. Sigh. What other open source, object storage backed logging databases do people recommend?

Loki by Grafana Labs is nice ( https://grafana.com/oss/loki/ ). There was a time (3+ years ago) where the product was changing pretty rapidly and much of the documentation was on git, so we had a few headaches doing minor version bumps, but I believe its much more mature now.

Just don’t look at the list of open issues and the lack of responses.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by Too » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 12:55 PM UTC

acaloiar wrote: post #43

The clock begins counting down to Datadog figuring out how to charge per node, cpu, container, RAM (KB), and unicode characters indexed.

Isn't this what they already do? Log pricing is per ingested GB and monitoring is charged per node.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by philippemnoel » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 1:04 PM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #25

francoismassot wrote: post #20

Co-founder of Quickwit here. Seeing our acquisition by Datadog on the HN front page feels like a truly full-circle moment. 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…

I think you forgot to add the links Anyway tantivy is great! I love pg_search https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_search (which appears to be built by another company, but on top of tantivy, which is a great feature of open source) Now, I am worried about development being stalled after this acquisition. How does further developing tantivy in the open helps Datadog's bottom line?

pg_search dev here -- Thanks for mentioning us.

Re: Tantivy. I'm hopeful the community Paul and the Quickwit team have built on top of Tantivy will continue to flourish. I'm sure Datadog will build product(s) with Quickwit, which is built on Tantivy and will contribute to it. Many other companies like ours (ParadeDB) and other databases also integrate it. I can't speak for others, but we'll contribute whenever possible. We're currently working on supporting nested documents in Tantivy, for example, and hoping to upstream this work.

While it's reasonable to be concerned, I'd say this is a win for Quickwit, Tantivy and, of course, the well-deserving team behind them.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by philippemnoel » Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

Hixon10 wrote: post #4

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/

Acquisitions don't necessarily mean the end of innovation. Sometimes, it allows them to take innovations they've worked hard on for years and expand the reach to a significantly larger audience :)

I have met the founders of all 3 of these companies and can assure you they all care tremendously about bringing their work to the world.

ParadeDB is independent and without plans to sell anytime soon, though :)