On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Andrew Otto <otto(a)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).
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