[jtagliabuetooso]

Thanks for your comment. As stated elsewhere, we understand the need for people to know how the system works, and have contributed back our ideas (and quite a bit of open source code) to the community: if you want to check our blogs and / or papers, I'm sure you'll find many interesting things.

If you're worried about data movement or secure deployment, none of that is an issue because of Iceberg + BYOC option.

Databricks and Snowflake, just to mention two players in a similar space, are not OS: did you feel that would prevent you from adopting them as well?

[dcreater]

> Databricks and Snowflake, just to mention two players in a similar space, are not OS: did you feel that would prevent you from adopting them as well?

Yes absolutely. Snowflake is a modern Oracle. It may survive but will be more of a barnacle/legacy system for big corporations. Neither are the right solution for the next generation of companies that are starting up today

[dcreater]

Posing the sentiment differently: Why not go open source? Follow the same model as marimo, astral etc. that are enriching the python ecosystem?

[jtagliabuetooso]

Marimo and astral are great and we use them both, they are not however infrastructure companies, so the parallel is a bit imperfect. Wouldn't you use AWS because it's closed source? And BigQuery? Or Motherduck?

There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to building companies, and the right answers depend on many factors: it would be interesting to know your choices for example!

I do agree with you that is important to give back to the ecosystem, but per size / dollar, bauplaners have done and continue doing as much as anyone. All in all, we have shared our ideas in the community in 50+ research papers in top venues (with thousands of citations), and we have quite a few popular open source contributions, with millions of downloads and >10k GitHub stars in total (our FaaS scheduler simulator was just open sourced with our VLDB25 WS paper).

You can be a good citizen of the Python / AI / database ecosystem without doing open source as a business strategy: the reality is more nuanced I believe!