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By one developer you mean Yandex or that most commits are made by a couple of users? Being backed by a large company (the Russian Google apparently) that has an

By one developer you mean Yandex or that most commits are made by a couple of users? Being backed by a large company (the Russian Google apparently) that has an independent revenue stream seems like a large plus, but maybe not enough to cancel out. I'm wary of investing effort into a potentially unsupported project as well, but I wonder if ClickHouse only seems "out there" because we're not aware of the Russian tech ecosystem (at least I'm not). People don't seem concerned about building anything with Firebase, but Google doesn't have a good track record of changing its mind about priorities or service pricing. What would you recommend instead for a column-oriented db that you can self-host (commercial or open source)?

drej 8y ago
It's in the Yandex namespace and it is used by said company, which is a huge plus. But if you looked at the development history just a while ago, it was highly dependent on Alexey. It reminds me of Grumpy (https://github.com/google/grumpy https://github.com/google/grumpy), which was released by Google, but was later basically abandoned when the lead left Google. That being said, the situation is better than last time I checked this, there is a handful of somewhat active developers. https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/graphs/contributors https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/graphs/contributors