[pauldix]

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.