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by tylerhannan 730 days ago
A database is core to your infrastructure...finding out your database is going away is a horrifying situation. Finding out that the time you have to migrate is a few months. Agh.

As others will say, there are options. Rockset helpfully posts links to a bunch of comparisons on their website, and these alternatives include ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Druid, etc.. https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-comparison/

I'm inherently biased (as a member of the ClickHouse team). But do check ClickHouse out.

You can always come hang out in our Slack (clickhouse.com/slack) and, of course, the combination of hosted ClickHouse (clickhouse.com/cloud) and the open-source (github.com/clickhouse) may add a bit of comfort when your vendor up and disappears via acquisition.

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To anyone else who may be confused like I was: Rockset will, in fact, "gradually transition current customers off Rockset". The OpenAI announcement linked above doesn't say so, but the Rockset announcement does:

https://rockset.com/blog/openai-acquires-rockset/

Month-to-month users been given until September 30, which is a very short amount of time for a major infrastructure transition. Enterprise users are given a vague "talk to your account manager" answer:

https://docs.rockset.com/documentation/docs/faq

In other words, the above isn't just FUD from a competitor, there legitimately are going to be a lot of frantic refugees in the coming months.

I’ve no skin in this particular game that I know of but this migration period is really, really short.
Especially if you’re in certain parts of Northern Europe where it’s common to take the whole of July off work.
Jesus having read the releases this comment should go up more given that I suspect a lot of shops will not have enough time to migrate.