Hacker Afternoon Tea

Sep 30, 2024 · Big Data

Quickwit Benchmark: Indexing 23 TB of GitHub Events and Evaluating Search Performance & Cost

The blog benchmarks Quickwit by indexing 61 billion GitHub event documents (23 TB) with 27 MB/s throughput, achieving sub‑second search latency using eight CPUs at $0.0002 per TB per query, while indexing costs about $2 per TB and storage costs $8.4 per TB per month.