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by evanelias 810 days ago
By "well financed" you mean "owned by Microsoft"?

That situation raises a separate set of concerns, especially in the context of Microsoft's main database cash cow being SQL Server, not Postgres/Citus.

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How is that different than owned by Oracle?
Yep, exactly. Apologies, my previous comment was semi-sarcastic but in retrospect that was way too vague :)

On average, HN leans anti-MySQL, with concerns about Oracle ownership frequently cited in these discussions (mixed in with some historic distrust of MySQL problems that were solved long ago). But I rarely see the same sentiment being expressed about Citus, despite some obvious similarities to their ownership situation.

Personally I don't necessarily think the ownership is a huge problem/risk in either case, but I can understand why others feel differently.

I'm as skeptical of MS as anyone. However it is licensed GNU AGPL, so not particularly worried.