Not too familiar with Neon other than the basics - its premise is that you use S3 as bottomless storage for Postgres and it’s otherwise the same as standard Postgres right? And this is all open source? Why are people paying? Can’t you use a cloud provider and have them host this for you?
Databricks acquires Neon
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Re: Databricks acquires Neon
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#83Data warehousing is quickly becoming a commodity through open-source. I know a company who had 2PBs+ of data in Cloudera. But instead of moving to the cloud (and Databricks), they saved 5X costs by building their own analytics platform with Iceberg, Trino and Superset. The k8s operators are enterprise quality now. On-premises S3 is good, too. You can have great hardware (servers with 128 cpus and 1 TB) and networking…
Totally agree. Happy open source StarRocks user here using the k8s operator for customer-facing analytics on terabytes of data. There's very little need for Databricks in my world.
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#84What happens to existing customers of Neon?
Ask the bit.io customers…. Most likely a holding state for a bit before databricks ruins it or shuts it down. I started looking around when the news broke last week or so for alternatives.
Any alternatives that you are aware of ? Most search results show me Supabase.
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask the bit.io customers…. Most likely a holding state for a bit before databricks ruins it or shuts it down. I started looking around when the news broke last week or so for alternatives.
Any alternatives that you are aware of ? Most search results show me Supabase.
Supabase is one that I'll consider, Xata [0] is another one that is interesting. Thankfully I just need "postgres", I don't need branching/PII-clearing/etc. That's all nice to have but I don't need it for my app.
I really would prefer a managed DB for multiple reasons but I might need to look at just self-hosting. I might have spent less time futzing with my DB if I had done that from the start instead of going Aurora Serverless v1 -> Planetscale -> Neon.
[0] https://xata.io/
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#86So... As someone who's joining databricks in a few weeks, what's with the hate in the comments?
Welcome to Databricks!
I've been an SA at Databricks for the past two years and love it here. The people you get to work with here are world-class and our customers legitimately love our product.
I too am a little confused about comments in threads on HN about Databricks, they seriously don't reflect what I see internally and what my customers say. I don't think I'd be working here if they did.
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#87I applied to neon last week and then the news broke about the acquisition. They rejected it this morning — I have never been happier to receive a rejection to an application. This would’ve been three acquisitions straight for me and… I’m okay, they’re awful. I just want stability. Congrats to the neon team! I use and love neon. Really hope this doesn’t change them too much.
Had personally the opposite experience. Acquisitions being one of the most interesting times to be hired into.
In a couple cases I’ve been recruited because I have a history of scaling and integrating acquisitions into companies successfully
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#88Hey 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.
The FAQ, as meaningless as history as shown it is, is missing one key question: why?
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#89So... As someone who's joining databricks in a few weeks, what's with the hate in the comments?
Welcome to Databricks! I've been an SA at Databricks for the past two years and love it here. The people you get to work with here are world-class and our customers legitimately love our product. I too am a little confused about comments in threads on HN about Databricks, they seriously don't reflect what I see internally and what my customers say. I don't think I'd be working here if they did.
Hopefully you weren't one of the SAs working on the bit.io migration after databricks acquired them.
Re: Databricks acquires Neon
#90Congratz to neon team (i like what they built), but i don’t see the value or relation to databricks. I hope neon will continue as a standalone product, otherwise we lose a solid postgres provider from the market.
They claim they will in the FAQ… but we know how this usually goes
If only companies were held liable for breaking promises they made when acquiring other companies