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I guess it is just me but as soon as I see "contact our sales" instead of price I turn away. Absence of perpetual license instead of monthly fee does not help e

• k__ 6y ago
  Their managed offering is also quite pricey.
• dotBen 6y ago
  Running a database business is especially hard - constant development is needed and so one time perpetual licenses don't really reflect the on-going costs (esp staff) that a database company has. Mix in the risk that your high value users end up using the FOSS edition and it can get especially difficult.
• nqzero 6y ago
  would a free (or low cost) tier on a limited number of nodes be something you'd consider for a database product ?
• e12e 6y ago
  They do list some prices for their managed service - I agree it's not clear what to expect you have to pay for self-hosting beyond the "community edition". At least eg ms sql has a pretty clear free/dev tier and a pretty straight pr core/price license. https://cloud.arangodb.com/home https://cloud.arangodb.com/home https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019-pricing https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019-p...
• Scarbutt 6y ago
  Their enterprise edition has "Forever Free for Evaluation"