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Based on what metric? Amazon took over Elastic's open source server and another major one IIRC. That was huge. PostgreSQL is not about to disappear.
by unityByFreedom 5y ago
Based on what metric? Amazon took over Elastic's open source server and another major one IIRC. That was huge. PostgreSQL is not about to disappear.
- greatpatton 5y agoThey did it only after ES decided to abandon the Apache license. I doubt that Amazon would have done it if they were not forced. Redshift is also Postgres based and Amazon never released something. So based on that metric Alibaba is more open.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoThere would be no open source Elastic had Amazon not taken it on. It was a smart move and benefits their balance sheet to do so. The point though is that move was greater than replicating existing open source work.
- funny_falcon 5y ago? Team on my previous workplace patched ElasticSearch to add functionality for years. Could thay do it if there were no open source Elastic?
- unityByFreedom 5y agoI agree you can't patch software without an actively supported open source package. You may have meant to reply to someone else.