Quickwit's petabyte-scale search engine moves under Datadog ownership with Apache 2.0 relicense; open-source development continues with distributed ingest and cardinality aggregations incoming.
Summary
Elasticsearch alternative proven at scale (Binance: 1.6PB/day indexing, Mezmo: petabyte logs in production) now backed by Datadog's distribution reach. Apache 2.0 license removes corporate control risk for operators building cost-sensitive log infrastructure.
Why it matters
Elasticsearch alternative proven at scale (Binance: 1.6PB/day indexing, Mezmo: petabyte logs in production) now backed by Datadog's distribution reach. Apache 2.0 license removes corporate control risk for operators building cost-sensitive log infrastructure.
Implementation verdict
Replaces Elasticsearch for petabyte-scale log search workloads requiring 10x cost efficiency. Requires Rust ecosystem familiarity and evaluation of distributed ingest API (forthcoming). Worth piloting now if you're indexing >100TB/day; production readiness confirmed by Binance and Mezmo deployments.
Sources
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