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This is quite cool. I'm curious though what the monetization strategy is now. After all they're a for-profit company that has taken a lot of VC. Sure, they cou
by rsp1984 9y ago
This is quite cool. I'm curious though what the monetization strategy is now. After all they're a for-profit company that has taken a lot of VC.
Sure, they could sell integration and maintenance services on top but services are typically much harder to scale than software -- not quite what gets investors excited.
- shusson 9y agoMy understanding is that the distributed[1] capability of MapD is not open sourced. And I'm guessing a lot of the companies (especially the ones with money to burn) that would use MapD require at least some horizontal scaling. [1]http://docs.mapd.com/latest/mapd-core-guide/distributed/ http://docs.mapd.com/latest/mapd-core-guide/distributed/