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Hi! Thank you for mentioning my company Altinity. We love ClickHouse and have been supporting customers on it for years. That said I would like to defend Click

Hi! Thank you for mentioning my company Altinity. We love ClickHouse and have been supporting customers on it for years. That said I would like to defend ClickHouse and their use of the logo. They acquired the IP and it's their right to use it as they please. It's hard to imagine them not using the ClickHouse name. There's a crowd of companies using/supporting ClickHouse so it's the obvious way to market themselves. The interesting question is whether it's a good thing for users to have a large company controlling ClickHouse rather than having it in a foundation.

mrwnmonm 4y ago
Will Altinity Cloud compete with ClickHouse Cloud now? :)
- hodgesrm 4y ago
  Yes. Our offering is quite differentiated--different pricing model, ability to run in user VPCs and private cloud, baked-in enterprise DBA support, and Altinity Stable builds with long-tail support are just a few examples. This is a large market with very diverse needs. At the same time we contribute to open source and work to make ClickHouse better, just as many other businesses built on ClickHouse do. We've done quite a bit of work including many ClickHouse PRs, maintenance of the Grafana ClickHouse plugin since 2019, Altinity Kubernetes operator for ClickHouse, etc. We plan to step up our contributions as the market grows.
nemo44x 4y ago
I think that’s only an interesting question to you because you directly benefit from that. For now on, your company will be regarded as an off brand Clickhouse since you have no influence on the roadmap, etc. MongoLab and MongoHQ come to mind. My advice would be to pivot away from the Clickhouse brand and towards a great OLAP service that happens to run on Clickhouse.
- hodgesrm 4y ago
  By that definition Amazon RDS is an off-brand MySQL (and PostgreSQL too). We're perfectly happy to be in their company.
  - nemo44x 4y ago
    I think people are buying Amazon there. I wish you guys luck but you’ll probably be used by customers mainly to negotiate with Clickhouse on better rates. And they’ll undercut competition when needed since they have so much cash and investor mindshare.

mrwnmonm 4y ago

Will Altinity Cloud compete with ClickHouse Cloud now? :)

hodgesrm 4y ago
Yes. Our offering is quite differentiated--different pricing model, ability to run in user VPCs and private cloud, baked-in enterprise DBA support, and Altinity Stable builds with long-tail support are just a few examples. This is a large market with very diverse needs. At the same time we contribute to open source and work to make ClickHouse better, just as many other businesses built on ClickHouse do. We've done quite a bit of work including many ClickHouse PRs, maintenance of the Grafana ClickHouse plugin since 2019, Altinity Kubernetes operator for ClickHouse, etc. We plan to step up our contributions as the market grows.

nemo44x 4y ago

I think that’s only an interesting question to you because you directly benefit from that. For now on, your company will be regarded as an off brand Clickhouse since you have no influence on the roadmap, etc. MongoLab and MongoHQ come to mind. My advice would be to pivot away from the Clickhouse brand and towards a great OLAP service that happens to run on Clickhouse.

hodgesrm 4y ago
By that definition Amazon RDS is an off-brand MySQL (and PostgreSQL too). We're perfectly happy to be in their company.
- nemo44x 4y ago
  I think people are buying Amazon there. I wish you guys luck but you’ll probably be used by customers mainly to negotiate with Clickhouse on better rates. And they’ll undercut competition when needed since they have so much cash and investor mindshare.