This blog post pairs best with our common-crawl demo and a glass of vin de Loire. Six months ago, we founded Quickwit with the objective of building a new breed of full-text search engine that would be 10 times more cost-efficient on very large datasets. How do we intend to do this? Our search engine will search data straight from Amazon S3, achieving true decoupled compute and storage. For distributed compute engines such as Presto or Spark, decoupled compute and storage has been a reality for a while. However, for search engines, this is a new trend. In May 2020, Amazon Elasticsearch Service released UltraWarm, a solution to search straight from Amazon S3 that claims to search petabytes of data in minutes according to this AWS Online Tech Talk.