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I don't think it's either.

Modern Data Stack is a set of characteristics - cloud based, SaaS, consumption based pricing, ELT bias, open source bias, component based etc.

AirByte is all of them. It's just a fact rather than a criticism.

I think this is fair and I don’t doubt that AirByte jumped on the MDS marketing bandwagon, but the fact that their pricing isn’t inscrutable sets them apart in my view.

Neither, just an interesting factoid that highlights just how zany the VC landscape was in the MDS space just a few years ago.

https://airbyte.com/blog/the-deck-we-used-to-raise-our-150m-...

Github stars used to be a signal of quality, and velocity of those stars indicated a winning product. But like all rating systems, they are for sale to the nearest Mechanical Turk or GenAI.