[sqlcook]

Hi Rick, I've been following Memsql for a few years now, are there any plans to release "community" edition? Last time I checked about 1.5 years ago json support was very basic and EE pricing (dont remember exact #s) was rather high. Thanks

[berns]

There already was a community edition[0]. And it was replaced by a "developer" edition that can no longer be used in production. It seems it didn't pan out as a marketing strategy and I don't think it's coming back.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577663

[siscia]

What are you looking for in a "community" edition?

[sqlcook]

EE features without support. I hate to bring up Mongo as example, but something similar...where support, additional software/plugins and cloud hosting are where the $ is made.

I did thorough testing of Memsql two years ago but went with Aurora instead. Would love to see how the product evolved since (Spark and Streaming integration was just being rolled out at the time), but something tells me pricing will be a deal breaker.

[siscia]

The point is that is not a convenient business model to just sell support, I can definitely understand why they are trying to sell features.

[MarHoff]

Thing is they are competing with PostgresSQL which you can extensively try for free before opting for a support.

"Free" being already hard to beat. The fact that you can't extensively test a solution is a real turn down for me (unless negotiating with commercials which is not nerds cup of tea).

[ddorian43]

Something that you can use on production based on what your db advertises as it's advantages (high availability + sharding).

[siscia]

I was asking because I am the creator of RediSQL[1] -- SQL steroids for Redis -- which is a less sophisticated product than MemSQL but still has its own use cases.

And maybe for parent was enough, or if not it would be very interesting to know what is missing.

[1]: http://redbeardlab.tech/rediSQL/

[ddorian43]

The same answer applies to your product.

[siscia]

Honestly, I believe that for small workload you can definitely use RediSQL in production, it will happily contain your cache or it will be a great SQL database.

However, I need a way to cut it between people just using the free product and people actually supporting the project, so provide as paying feature something that the big company will require it seemed to me the only way to go.

Unfortunately, I don't have the capital nor the bandwidth to go with fully open source product and selling just support, which I don't believe is anyway a good business model.

If you were in my shoes, you would do something different?

[jexah]

I haven't followed any links posted in this thread, but some things I see often are: free for non-commercial use, timed commercial use usually in the region of 30 days, or rates based on reads and writes. The last one seems like a winner from what you've described as your situation.

[ddorian43]

To be honest, I fail to see what I could use your product for so I'm out of the target audience.

Assuming nosql is for something very efficient or very scalable, I need some space to use it before I have to shell $$. There are many products where I have to pay before going on production.

[siscia]

EDIT: I couldn't reply directly to it's message, now I can, I just copied my previous comment verbatim below.