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Comment by hodgesrm

2 years ago

CEO of Altinity here, also editor of the blog article. It would be more interesting to address the points that it raises. If you are an open source user of ClickHouse, do you really want basic features like object storage for tables or ability to delete data efficiently withheld?

This question is important regardless of who raises it. Projects like Kafka, Spark, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes (among others) have solved it while allowing good returns to those who contribute.

p.s., We spent 7% of budget on marketing last month. A sizable fraction of our budget is devoted to open source contributions ClickHouse and ecosystem projects.

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joshxyz  2 years ago

i appreciate your work here man, altinity even wrote a lot of useful blog posts about clickhouse back then, love those stuff.

this whole thing reminds me of elastic and hashicorp, and it's hard to pick sides given that the core maintainers also worked their assess of building it in public, and the community contributors also put their effort into it.

i think this common theme is unlocking a new era of software where core maintainers productize the main product slapped with a bsl license and the community (incl other businesses) maintain their own fork.

it's great that discussions like this are being brought up and talked about.

  • hodgesrm  2 years ago

    Thanks. That's exactly why we wrote the article. Beyond any commercial considerations, we have worked with ClickHouse for many years and are personally invested in seeing it become the default analytic database worldwide. I believe the best path to that goal is robust support for open source development and distribution.