Altinity has been in the space for a while offering Clickhouse services as well: https://altinity.com/
EDIT: brazenly was the wrong word here :)
That said I would like to defend ClickHouse and their use of the logo. They acquired the IP and it's their right to use it as they please. It's hard to imagine them not using the ClickHouse name. There's a crowd of companies using/supporting ClickHouse so it's the obvious way to market themselves.
The interesting question is whether it's a good thing for users to have a large company controlling ClickHouse rather than having it in a foundation.
My advice would be to pivot away from the Clickhouse brand and towards a great OLAP service that happens to run on Clickhouse.
I wish you guys luck but you’ll probably be used by customers mainly to negotiate with Clickhouse on better rates. And they’ll undercut competition when needed since they have so much cash and investor mindshare.
At the same time we contribute to open source and work to make ClickHouse better, just as many other businesses built on ClickHouse do. We've done quite a bit of work including many ClickHouse PRs, maintenance of the Grafana ClickHouse plugin since 2019, Altinity Kubernetes operator for ClickHouse, etc. We plan to step up our contributions as the market grows.
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FWIW, here is Alexey's perspective on the topic directly for those of you following along at home.
It is included in many adblocker lists.
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1781
Unfortunately mvps.org no longer seems to reply to emails.
It will be interesting to watch this unfold from a code licensing perspective. Will Clickhouse Inc. move to a more restrictive license to block all these other ClickHouse services?
I don't see it as a reasonable move.