[mfreed]

Azure Postgres offers the Apache-2 Edition of TimescaleDB, not the Community Edition (which the TSL applies to). Same with DigitalOcean, Rackspace, Scaleways, Alibaba, etc.

So they can continue to offer the Apache-2 Edition, but could not before, and still can't, offer the Community Edition.

Community is where a lot of our more advanced features lie: multi-node, columnar compression, continuous and real-time aggregates, automation, advanced analytics, etc.

[skrebbel]

fwiw, I've spent 10 minutes scouring the timescale.com but I can't find any information about the difference between the Apache-2 Edition or the Community edition. Links from your GitHub readme suggest that such information used to be there, but now it's all "cloud" vs "software" - if I choose "software", which of the two editions do I get?

I assume this is still a WIP since the recent licensing / business model changes likely also warranted website changes, hence my feedback.

Congrats on the move btw, and fantastic that Timescale Cloud is working so well as a business model. Are you considering adding other clouds? I ask for selfish reasons as we're currently on Digital Ocean and quite happily so. If Timescale Cloud would exist for DO we'd likely become a customer.

In fact, if your business model succeeds and gets adopted by other open source vendors, supporting a wide range of clouds and hosting providers might very well help directly undermine the current effective oligopoly that is AWS/GCP/Azure! That'd be just splendid. Sorry for rambling a bit :-)

[mfreed]

The "Software" column of product page [0], which I assume you are referring to, corresponds to our Community Edition, as least from a feature-set edition.

But thanks for the feedback. Always a balance between making things easily understandable and too much "in the weeds." We used to separately show "Community" and "Apache-2" on our feature matrix on product page, but frankly, it was too confusing / too much information for visitors that were just coming to TimescaleDB for the first time. Especially given that the vast, vast majority of deployments are indeed the Community edition.

For a detailed comparison, our docs should explicitly label all community features as "Community Edition". Otherwise, they are Apache-2. For example, see the labelling with compression [1], continuous aggregates [2], etc.

And we continue to provide binary packages for the Apache-2 edition of the TimescaleDB, which you can similarly find through our installation instructions (eg [3]).

[0] https://www.timescale.com/products

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/api#compression

[2] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/api#continuous-aggregates

[3] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/getting-started/installati... ("apt-get timescaledb-oss-postgresql-12")