Now that ClickHouse is moving towards becoming an observability platform, what does the future look like for other products like HyperDX that are essentially ClickHouse wrappers? Are we looking at another controversial license change?
ClickHouse is, indeed, the best database to build observability tooling on. And, for those of our users who want observability "out of the box," HyperDX is the best solution.
As part of this, we are increasing our investment in observability across the board. For instance, we plan to continue building/improving ClickHouse core capabilities to support the observability use case (eg. inverted indexes, semi-structured data support, time-series table engine and more).
I look forward to seeing how other observability companies innovate atop ClickHouse. There is room for all of us to succeed.
Re. licensing. I can tell you that we are planning no changes at the moment. At one point we may align licensing on the HyperDX and ClickHouse open-source projects (Apache 2)...but that is TBD.