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by furicane 2782 days ago
Guys, I believe you are engineers that are doing an amazing job. But the whole "free up to 128GB" promotion is just.. wtf. And the website revolves around attracting IT managers, not engineers that make educated decisions related to project(s). I make decisions based on calculations, not based on shiny websites. I'm not undermining your product. It appears to be amazing. I'd love if it were free and open source. Heck, we'd probably spend a ton of money on it for paid support, scaling planning, consulting, deployment and what not. I just hate your business model, that's all. Let me have your program running without constraints! And because of it, I can't see a reason to use it. I choose to explore other venues that went down the open source route. I'm quite okay with not running the fastest option. No hard feelings, I sincerely wish you make a huge dent in this area and make a ton of money!
1 comments

Free up to 128GB is practically free for up to 95% of applications. In both dev and prod.

I really don’t see how you could have a problem with that.

The problem is free up to 128GB is not 95% of problems you would run on an in memory database.

I have never seen a productive system that small. I’ve seen thousands.

if you stored data on disk compressed in MemSQL's columnstore, you would use that 128 GB of RAM for query execution. on-disk data storage would not be limited. if that's not a productive system, then I must have imagined the whole data warehouse and data mart market