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by nemothekid 874 days ago
Is the idea that big players will get tired of paying a license to a company like Qdrant and write their own database? I just don't really see why they would do that - if Qdrant is similar in complexity to any standard DB, it's like asking why doesn't Apple just rip out MySQL and write their own Apple DB.

I can see them replacing it if Qdrant isn't able to scale to their needs - thats why we ended up with Dynamo, Spanner, MyRocks. However its likely that its probably easier to just acquire the team - like Apple did with Foundation - and become project stewards than trying to invent a new datastore to save pennies.

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qdrant is trivial compared to a normal database.