True, but a fork is a fork is a fork. It would have to be done very competently (clustering is hard) and maintained long-term, by people who are not even part o

True, but a fork is a fork is a fork. It would have to be done very competently (clustering is hard) and maintained long-term, by people who are not even part of InfluxData and thus have a big starting disadvantage in experience and user base. That makes it much less viable, unless there's a huge critical momentum around it.