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also meilsearch is more like quickwit, their distributed offering but quickwit is AGPL

They serve quite different use cases.

quickwit was built to handle extremely large data volumes, you can ingest and search TB and PB of logs.

meilisearches indexing doesn't scale as it will become slower the more data you have, e.g. I failed to ingest 7GB of data.

Hey PSeitz, Meilisearch CEO here. Sorry to hear that you failed to index a low volume of data. When did you last try Meilisearch? We have made significant improvements in the indexing speed. We have a customer with hundreds of gigabytes of raw data on our cloud, and it scales amazingly well. https://x.com/Kerollmops/status/1772575242885484864

Frankly, I'm okay with Meillisearch for instant search because y'all are clear about analytics choices, offer understandable FOSS Rust, and have a non-AGPL license. If/when we make some money, I'm in favor of $upporting and consulting of tools used to keep them alive out of self-interest.

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