Storage configuration

Supported Storage Providers

Quickwit currently supports four types of storage providers:

• Amazon S3 and S3-compatible (Garage, MinIO, ...)
• Azure Blob Storage
• Local file storage*
• Google Cloud Storage (native API)

Storage URIs

Storage URIs refer to different storage providers identified by a URI "protocol" or "scheme". Quickwit supports the following storage URI protocols:

• s3:// for Amazon S3 and S3-compatible
• azure:// for Azure Blob Storage
• file:// for local file systems
• gs:// for Google Cloud Storage

In general, you can use a storage URI or a file path anywhere you would intuitively expect a file path. For instance:

• when setting the index_uri of an index to specify the storage provider and location;
• when setting the metastore_uri in a node config to set up a file-backed metastore;
• when passing a file path as a command line argument.

Local file storage URIs

Quickwit interprets regular file paths as local file system URIs. Relative file paths are allowed and are resolved relatively to the current working directory (CWD). ~ can be used as a shortcut to refer to the user’s home directory. The following are valid local file system URIs:

- /var/quickwit
- file:///var/quickwit
- /home/quickwit/data
- ~/data
- ./quickwit

caution

When using the file:// protocol, a third / is necessary to express an absolute path. For instance, the following URI file://home/quickwit/ is interpreted as ./home/quickwit

Storage configuration

This section contains one configuration subsection per storage provider. If a storage configuration parameter is not explicitly set, Quickwit relies on the default values provided by the storage provider SDKs (Azure SDK for Rust, AWS SDK for Rust).

S3 storage configuration

Property	Description	Default value
flavor	The optional storage flavor to use. Available flavors are digital_ocean, garage, gcs, and minio.
access_key_id	The AWS access key ID.
secret_access_key	The AWS secret access key.
region	The AWS region to send requests to.	us-east-1 (SDK default)
endpoint	Custom endpoint for use with S3-compatible providers.	SDK default
force_path_style_access	Disables virtual-hosted–style requests. Required by some S3-compatible providers (Ceph, MinIO).	false
disable_multi_object_delete	Disables Multi-Object Delete requests. Required by some S3-compatible providers (GCS).	false
disable_multipart_upload	Disables multipart upload of objects. Required by some S3-compatible providers (GCS).	false

danger

Hardcoding credentials into configuration files is not secure and strongly discouraged. Prefer the alternative authentication methods that your storage backend may provide.

Environment variables

Env variable	Description
QW_S3_ENDPOINT	Custom S3 endpoint.
QW_S3_MAX_CONCURRENCY	Limit the number of concurrent requests to S3

Storage flavors

Storage flavors ensure that Quickwit works correctly with storage providers that deviate from the S3 API by automatically configuring the appropriate settings. The available flavors are:

• digital_ocean
• garage
• gcs
• minio

Digital Ocean

The Digital Ocean flavor (digital_ocean) forces path-style access and turns off multi-object delete requests.

Garage flavor

The Garage flavor (garage) overrides the region parameter to garage and forces path-style access.

Google Cloud Storage

The Google Cloud Storage flavor (gcs) turns off multi-object delete requests and multipart uploads.

MinIO flavor

The MinIO flavor (minio) forces path-style access.

Example of a storage configuration for Google Cloud Storage in YAML format:

storage:
  s3:
    flavor: gcs
    region: us-east1
    endpoint: https://storage.googleapis.com

Azure storage configuration

Property	Description	Default value
account	The Azure storage account name.
access_key	The Azure storage account access key.

Environment variables

Env variable	Description
QW_AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT	Azure Blob Storage account name.
QW_AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY	Azure Blob Storage account access key.

Example of a storage configuration for Azure in YAML format:

storage:
  azure:
    account: your-azure-account-name
    access_key: your-azure-access-key

Storage configuration examples for various object storage providers

Garage

Garage is an open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.

storage:
  s3:
    flavor: garage
    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:3900

MinIO

MinIO is a high-performance object storage.

storage:
  s3:
    flavor: minio
    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:9000

Note: default_index_root_uri or index URIs do not include the endpoint, you should set it as a typical S3 path such as s3://indexes.