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Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by okbro »

bk146 wrote: post #2

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 visibility into their systems. This becomes challenging when logs need to remain at rest in customers’ environments or specific regions, hindering teams’ ability to attain seamless observability and insight. To help our customers meet these requirements without sacrificing visibility or introducing multiple logging tools, we are pleased to announce that Quickwit—a popular open source distributed search engine—is joining Datadog.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by gnabgib »

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

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by oliverrice »

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/

(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 hear any concerns you have

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by winrid »

bk146 wrote: post #2

Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.

I could only imagine they want to replace their existing infra with this as a potential cost saving measure.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

winrid wrote: post #7
bk146 wrote: post #2

Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.

I could only imagine they want to replace their existing infra with this as a potential cost saving measure.

And then I'm sure they'll pass the savings onto customers given the current crazy high prices.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by aseipp »

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 with a relicense to Apache License 2.0 and tantivy.

So, it looks like we'll get a more liberally licensed Quickwit, but reading between the lines suggests development of it is might otherwise be winding down? It has been pretty nice and stable in my experience, so I can't really complain much. But I was really looking forward to what else it could bring.

Congrats to the team, in any case!

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