<story><title>Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?</title><url>https://altinity.com/blog/is-clickhouse-moving-away-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftin</author><text>The blog author founded altinity. Altinity&amp;#x27;s main product offering is a hosted clickhouse service. The top 10 committers to clickhouse all seem to be clickhouse employees. Looking at altinity on github, they contribute much less open source. If clickhouse the company are spending 40%+ of their money to build the product, then others including altinity spend 5% dev and 80% marketing, they will get more customers. That isn&amp;#x27;t sustainable. How do you solve that? Other than fencing off exclusive enterprise features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>Altinity maintains the ClickHouse operator which got a lot of people to use ClickHouse to begin with. ClickHouse has had a lot of corner cases that were reported from those kinds of people, myself included.&lt;p&gt;If you look at some of the discussions, while a lot of the fixes come from the clickHouse team it would be unjust to say that the corner case discussions don&amp;#x27;t contribute to the fixes.&lt;p&gt;I think part of the reason is that ClickHouse, being sort of a unique offering brings with its users sometimes a quite competent bunch that go beyond the &amp;quot;I want this feature, please implement&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?</title><url>https://altinity.com/blog/is-clickhouse-moving-away-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftin</author><text>The blog author founded altinity. Altinity&amp;#x27;s main product offering is a hosted clickhouse service. The top 10 committers to clickhouse all seem to be clickhouse employees. Looking at altinity on github, they contribute much less open source. If clickhouse the company are spending 40%+ of their money to build the product, then others including altinity spend 5% dev and 80% marketing, they will get more customers. That isn&amp;#x27;t sustainable. How do you solve that? Other than fencing off exclusive enterprise features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hodgesrm</author><text>CEO of Altinity here, also editor of the blog article. It would be more interesting to address the points that it raises. If you are an open source user of ClickHouse, do you really want basic features like object storage for tables or ability to delete data efficiently withheld?&lt;p&gt;This question is important regardless of who raises it. Projects like Kafka, Spark, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes (among others) have solved it while allowing good returns to those who contribute.&lt;p&gt;p.s., We spent 7% of budget on marketing last month. A sizable fraction of our budget is devoted to open source contributions ClickHouse and ecosystem projects.</text></comment>