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by skrebbel
2098 days ago
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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 :-) |
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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")