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Not open source, not interested. It looks neat though, but I won't burn myself on anything closed source if there's open source and/or self-hosted alternatives

Not open source, not interested. It looks neat though, but I won't burn myself on anything closed source if there's open source and/or self-hosted alternatives.

mehrant 2y ago
thanks for taking time and commenting :) we'd still be happy if you decided to use it and give us your thoughts. as I mentioned in one of the comments below, we're hoping to go open source in future :)
- verdverm 2y ago
  > we're hoping to go open source in future :) That's just lip service, either you intend to or you don't, it's not up to hope We hope you will see the dev tooling space is based around open source and you will alienate many potential users by not being open source
- tobyhinloopen 2y ago
  Let me know when it's open source and I'd be happy to give it a try! It doesn't even have to be free - I'm fine with Unreal's model where you get access to the source even though commercial use requires a paid license. I want something running locally on my machine that doesn't rely on calling home.
  - mehrant 2y ago
    your concern is understandable. we'll be in touch :)
- hdjjhhvvhga 2y ago
  Give me one reason to use a closed-source Redis alternative rather than one of many open ones, starting with KeyDB. If I wanted a closed clone, I'd probably go with DragonflyDB (whose license is "feel free to run it in production unless you offer it as a managed redis service").
tschellenbach 2y ago
Doesn't always help. Price hikes on CockroachDB for instance have been crazy.
Aurornis 2y ago
The comparison to Redis felt misleading when I realized it was a commercial product. I'm not sure I like this recent trend of people registering new accounts on HN to use "Show HN" to pitch commercial products. Show HN is fun to see projects people have been working on and want to share for the good of the community. It's less fun when it's being used as a simple advertising mechanism to drive purchases.
- gkbrk 2y ago
  It's a suitable comparison I think. Redis is also not open-source. https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt
  - old_bayes 2y ago
    As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.
- pvg 2y ago
  Show HN is not limited to open source projects.
  - Aurornis 2y ago
    I never said it was. Seeing green accounts (just registered) doing nothing other than promote products doesn't feel consistent with the spirit of Show HN.
    - pvg 2y ago
      There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.
h1fra 2y ago
agree, especially on something as common as Redis. Being locked in is not worth the better perf on something already super-fast. But then I wonder what the business model is here? Even without being open-source, I'm constantly asking myself who pays for DBs that are not in a major cloud
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Not open source, not interested. It looks neat though, but I won't burn myself on anything closed source if there's open source and/or self-hosted alternatives.

mehrant 2y ago

thanks for taking time and commenting :) we'd still be happy if you decided to use it and give us your thoughts. as I mentioned in one of the comments below, we're hoping to go open source in future :)

verdverm 2y ago
> we're hoping to go open source in future :) That's just lip service, either you intend to or you don't, it's not up to hope We hope you will see the dev tooling space is based around open source and you will alienate many potential users by not being open source
tobyhinloopen 2y ago
Let me know when it's open source and I'd be happy to give it a try! It doesn't even have to be free - I'm fine with Unreal's model where you get access to the source even though commercial use requires a paid license. I want something running locally on my machine that doesn't rely on calling home.
- mehrant 2y ago
  your concern is understandable. we'll be in touch :)
hdjjhhvvhga 2y ago
Give me one reason to use a closed-source Redis alternative rather than one of many open ones, starting with KeyDB. If I wanted a closed clone, I'd probably go with DragonflyDB (whose license is "feel free to run it in production unless you offer it as a managed redis service").

tschellenbach 2y ago

Doesn't always help. Price hikes on CockroachDB for instance have been crazy.

Aurornis 2y ago

The comparison to Redis felt misleading when I realized it was a commercial product. I'm not sure I like this recent trend of people registering new accounts on HN to use "Show HN" to pitch commercial products. Show HN is fun to see projects people have been working on and want to share for the good of the community. It's less fun when it's being used as a simple advertising mechanism to drive purchases.

gkbrk 2y ago
It's a suitable comparison I think. Redis is also not open-source. https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt
- old_bayes 2y ago
  As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.
pvg 2y ago
Show HN is not limited to open source projects.
- Aurornis 2y ago
  I never said it was. Seeing green accounts (just registered) doing nothing other than promote products doesn't feel consistent with the spirit of Show HN.
  - pvg 2y ago
    There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.

h1fra 2y ago

agree, especially on something as common as Redis. Being locked in is not worth the better perf on something already super-fast. But then I wonder what the business model is here? Even without being open-source, I'm constantly asking myself who pays for DBs that are not in a major cloud

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