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> These companies [AWS, Microsoft, and Google] are some of the biggest contributors to open source. True, but their contributions are quite selective. Google w
by hodgesrm 8y ago
> These companies [AWS, Microsoft, and Google] are some of the biggest contributors to open source.
True, but their contributions are quite selective. Google writes very good infrastructure code. However OSS DBMS services are quite different. They tend to originate in companies with data problems. Sometimes that's a company like Google or Microsoft, but more often it's a company like Facebook that has an issue processing a lot of data.
BTW I'm not so sure AWS counts as a big OSS contributor. They use it but don't really make a lot of contributions back. This may change over time.
Disclaimer: I work at Altinity, which offers support and software for ClickHouse. (Incidentally written by Yandex to process their clickstream data.)