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Amazon Kinesis is based on Apache Flink. One complaint might be the branding but keep in mind that the Apache Foundation has a strict policy of enforcing tradem

Amazon Kinesis is based on Apache Flink. One complaint might be the branding but keep in mind that the Apache Foundation has a strict policy of enforcing trademarks. The Apache Foundation itself doesn't choose winners and many equivalent projects live under the same umbrella, just like Flink and Kafka. Performance is often transient and it isn't the only criteria used when choosing a vendor. Some enterprise customers prefer a single vendor, i.e., "one throat to choke". Others have very specific constraints: greenfield decision making is a luxury. My impression is that Amazon responds to customer requests to solve specific problems and they make a decent effort to continuously improve the performance and other aspects of their services. At one point people said "no one gets fired for choosing IBM" and this switched to Microsoft and, rightly or wrongly, Amazon AWS now wears this crown.

GordonS 6y ago
> My impression is that Amazon responds to customer requests to solve specific problems and they make a decent effort to continuously improve the performance and other aspects of their services. I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer mindshare by supporting OSS.
- csharptwdec19 6y ago
  > I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer mindshare by supporting OSS. In their mind, long term, that leaves money on the table. If they entered a licensing deal, they would have exposure risk if they ever wanted to replace it with an in-house product (and, given their corporate culture, an actual legal exposure, intentional or not, is a possibility).

GordonS 6y ago

> My impression is that Amazon responds to customer requests to solve specific problems and they make a decent effort to continuously improve the performance and other aspects of their services. I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer mindshare by supporting OSS.

csharptwdec19 6y ago
> I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer mindshare by supporting OSS. In their mind, long term, that leaves money on the table. If they entered a licensing deal, they would have exposure risk if they ever wanted to replace it with an in-house product (and, given their corporate culture, an actual legal exposure, intentional or not, is a possibility).