On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Andrew Otto otto@wikimedia.org wrote:
tl;dr: Datastax is cooler than Cloudera, but Datastax is not 100% open source. Can we still use it?
Not the proprietary bits, no.
If it's just about using the open core part, that's less problematic, although I generally advise against buying into open core solutions because the incentive structures aren't aligned (they'll continually try to upsell you on the cool proprietary features).