Comment by jitl
6 days ago
Quickwit was bought by Datadog, so I feel there's some risk quickwit-oss becomes unmaintained if Datadog's corporate priority shifts in the future, or OSS maintenance stops providing return on investment. Based on the Quickwit blog post, they are relicensing to Apache2 and releasing some enterprise features, so it seems very possible the original maintainers will move to other things, and it's unclear if enough community would coalesce to keep the project moving forward.
https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-joins-datadog#the-journey-...
I have an implementation of Quickwit, so I've thought about this.
The latest version is stable and fast enough, that I think this won't be an issue for a while. It's the kind of thing that does what it needs to do, at least for me.
But I totally agree that the project is at risk, given the acquisition.