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by jauntywundrkind 521 days ago
I want to be excited, because this is such a smart combination of excellent utterly modern zero-copy data technologies. I love that Influx is using such a strong base of tech to build this.

> These products are built on more than four years of development and powered by the FDAP stack—Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet—and delivered on our rebuilt time series database architecture.

So awesome.

Its a bit harder to be quite as merry when the list of things that are enterprise only is so long. I know companies need to pay the bills, & don't begrudge them their decisions, but this still hurts;

> InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds historical query capability, read replicas, high availability, scalability, and fine-grained security.

Having 72 hour max limit, single instance only, without high availability, and reduced security each seem like really big feature gates to deny the open source edition. Any even mildly serious adopter is probably going to need at least one of these.

I want to stay positive & hopeful & still am, but this feels like one of those really narrow open core strategies that makes me nervous.
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pauldix 521 days ago
We think that Core will fill some of the use cases of previous OSS versions of InfluxDB, but not all. But we also expect that Core will be useful in many more places that previous OSS versions of InfluxDB were not.

So Core isn't intended to be a full historical TSDB. It's more like a data collector, processing engine, data shipper and recent data buffer/DB.

For a full historical TSDB, that's the product we sell. Keeping the two separate gives us the ability to have real open source vs. combining them and requiring a different license that lets us do freemium.

We'll likely have a freemium tier for the commercial product (Enterprise), but that's separate from the open source project.

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