The downside is they pivoted away from supporting running it yourself. The technology is certainly exciting but also changes the target demographic. I'm curious to see how it plays out
Such a shame, I had an ideal use case for a product I'm working on, but there's no way I'm shackling it to cloud vendors. Just not a good fit for this product.
I really hope materialize eventually inspires something like it in the open source world.
Please also take a look at https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave if you are looking for advanced streaming databases. It is under Apache License and also support on-prem deployment (docker, kubernetes) with full function set of distributed clustering, compute-storage disaggregation, etc..
Let me know if anything.
I'm not sure that 100% of the bits you'd need to run it are available, and even if they are it's unsupported, which for many businesses is a non starter
I really hope materialize eventually inspires something like it in the open source world.