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When will CitusDB be open sourced?

• jaytaylor 12y ago
  That's a great question. Unfortunately, in the past it seems like they don't opt to interact with us in HN posts about them [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351248
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  • ozgune 12y ago
    (Ozgun from Citus Data) Yes, that's a great question. The reason we didn't respond earlier was that we don't have a firm answer yet. Open sourcing CitusDB is a big decision for us, and we're still learning about (the business side of) open source through our open pg_shard and cstore extensions. Once we have a good reply to this question, the HN audience will among the first to know. :)
    • mrmondo 12y ago
      Please consider it - we'd love to use CitusDB but until it's open sourced we will not / can not in some cases do so.
    • bkeroack 12y ago
      Damn. I've read a bit about Citus and thought it was interesting but had no idea it wasn't FOSS. Please consider opening it--as cool as the technology is, I can't in good conscience implement a proprietary DBMS in production.
      • ericfrenkiel 12y ago
        Can you expand on your reservations with this?
        • jaytaylor 12y ago
          @ericfrenkiel Just look at what happened recently with FoundationDB.