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The downside is they pivoted away from supporting running it yourself. The technology is certainly exciting but also changes the target demographic. I'm curious to see how it plays out

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Such a shame, I had an ideal use case for a product I'm working on, but there's no way I'm shackling it to cloud vendors. Just not a good fit for this product.

I really hope materialize eventually inspires something like it in the open source world.

Please also take a look at https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave if you are looking for advanced streaming databases. It is under Apache License and also support on-prem deployment (docker, kubernetes) with full function set of distributed clustering, compute-storage disaggregation, etc.. Let me know if anything.

This might actually do what I needed! I'll keep it in mind for the future, thank you for making me aware.

Materialize itself is under a BSL license that makes every commit automatically convert to open source four years after it lands.

That is a shame. I was thinking of possibly using it in our company, but there's no way we're onboarding another cloud next to AWS.

It's source-available...

I'm not sure that 100% of the bits you'd need to run it are available, and even if they are it's unsupported, which for many businesses is a non starter

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