alt Hacker NewsActually this is not important. Because they need to make a living, and with that they have to make some functonality of ClickHouse propritary.
You can scale the pure open source project really far. And if you need more, you do have money to pay for it.
People need to stop thinking that open source is free leech. Open source is about sharing knowledge and building trust between each other. But we are still living in a business world where we are competing.
It is important to decorelate compute and Storage.
I think people should be aware that the Core Storage work is not beeing done in the open anymore. The process of letting the open source core grow useless while selling proprietary addons is fine. I just have a problem with people calling this open source.
Some prefer using open source. Are they leeches ?
Regarding scaling open source projects, did Linux scale ?