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Clickhouse is *really* gatekeeping the "zero copy replication" where you store data on object-storage and have high availability from the open source version.
by ddorian43 4mo ago
Clickhouse is *really* gatekeeping the "zero copy replication" where you store data on object-storage and have high availability from the open source version.
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- nvartolomei 4mo agoHow? Have you tried contributing a reasonable implementation with test coverage and it was rejected?
- pepperoni_pizza 4mo agoI think that is just the nature of the open core business - but like most such businesses, they're not very clear about how that is what they are, pretending to be open source business instead.
- fsuts 4mo agoVc funded with recent rounds so 10 years hasn’t been enough time to make money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickHouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickHouse
- orian 4mo agoThis is the main driver for their cloud ;-)
- nasretdinov 4mo agoThat feature is central for ClickHouse Cloud offering which essentially is what lets others have (the rest of) ClickHouse for free. If you need that feature I think it's quite obvious you'll have to pay. I don't think it's an unreasonable stance at all. P.S. I don't believe you are right to call it "zero copy" either. The object storage itself is replicated and definitely does copy and/or split data a lot under the hood. In some sense it's no different from ClickHouse's replication, apart from that ClickHouse can't use erasure codes to reduce the data footprint, whereas many advanced object stores can
- ddorian43 4mo agoIt is called "zero copy" in clickhouse land. That feature, is becoming central for an OLAP db, even a free/open-source one.
- rastignack 4mo agoThe thing is you are going to be comoditized on this too. And it’s going to be faster to migrate off your database with AI. You are going to need to have a plan.