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Hey everyone, I'm an engineer at Neon and I wanted to share this FAQ which covers a lot of the questions that are being brought up in the comments here: https://neon.tech/databricks-faq We're really excited about this, and will try to respond to some of the questions people have here later.
Will there be a statement about the OSS nature of Neon?
I’ve loved Neon and now I’m a little worried. Are there any alternatives?
Maybe unrelated but Databricks is the most annoying garbage I have ever had to use. It fascinates me how anyone uses it by choice.
With cookies disabled I get a blank website, which is a massive red flag and an immediate nope from me. Can't imagine someone incapable of building a website would deliver a good (digital) product.
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[Disclaimer: I work for Xata] As it happens, we've just launched our new Xata platform ( https://xata.io/ ) which has some of the key Neon features: instant copy-on-write branching and separation of storage and compute. As an extra twist, we also can do anonymization (PII masking) between your production database and developer branches. The way we do copy-on-write branches is a bit different. We haven't done any modi…
Is this open source? A major point of Neon is that it's open source and self-hostable.
These are the open source components:
* pgstream for the anonymization from the production branch
* pgroll for schema changes
* Xata Agent for the LLM-powered optimizations
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Is this open source? A major point of Neon is that it's open source and self-hostable.
Several components are open source as their own projects (see below) which will allow you to reproduce most of the features on top of regular Postgres. But the storage part is not open source. We are considering a simpler implementation of it that would be realistic to self-host and still do copy-on-write branching. These are the open source components: * pgstream for the anonymization from the production branch * pg…
I’ve loved Neon and now I’m a little worried. Are there any alternatives?
Maybe unrelated but Databricks is the most annoying garbage I have ever had to use. It fascinates me how anyone uses it by choice.
I really don't understand the valuation for this company. Why is it so high.
Maybe unrelated but Databricks is the most annoying garbage I have ever had to use. It fascinates me how anyone uses it by choice.
With cookies disabled I get a blank website, which is a massive red flag and an immediate nope from me. Can't imagine someone incapable of building a website would deliver a good (digital) product.
A VC funded company that has never been profitable spending a billion on another startup…
Databricks is profitable afaik.