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Comment by dangoodmanUT | Hacker News Reader

God clickhouse is such great software, if it only it was as ergonomic as duckdb, and management wasn't doing some questionable things (deleting references to competitors in GH issues, weird legal letters, etc.)

The CH contributors are really stellar, from multiple companies (Altinity, Tinybird, Cloudflare, ClickHouse)

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They have an interesting version that's packaged a bit like DuckDB - you can even "pip install" it: https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb

They don't do static builds AFAICT, which would make it a real competitor to DuckDB.

chDB author here, You are right, we have not made a static libchDB. BTW, I guess you are a golang developer?

Correct! Would love to have the Go package come as a single dependency without having to distribute `.so` files. That's what's stopping me from using `chDB` now instead of DuckDB. Being able to use chDB in a static manner would also help deepen my usage of the Clickhouse server. Right now the Clickhouse side of my project is lagging behind the DuckDB one because of this.

That's great feedback, thank you! I just added your comment to the GH issue: https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb/issues/101#issuecomment-2824...

Ps. I work for ClickHouse

What is the use case for an embedded terabyte-scale database, by the way?

Tbh, I'm not too worried about CH management. Let them mod the GH if they want to, it's their company.

Contribution is strong and varied enough that I think we're good for the long term.

chdb and clickhouse-local is nearly as ergonomic as duckdb with all of the features of ch.

duckdb has unfortunately been leaning away from pure oss - the ui they released is entirely hosted on motherduck’s servers (which, while an awesome project, makes me feel like the project will be cannibalized by a proprietary extensions.)

> the ui they released is entirely hosted on motherduck’s servers

who is they in this sentence ? afaik UI was released by motherduck a private company.

ClickHouse too. Their sharedmergetree is not open source at all. It makes ClickHouse OSS obsolete design-wise. Shame.

Actually this is not important. Because they need to make a living, and with that they have to make some functonality of ClickHouse propritary.

You can scale the pure open source project really far. And if you need more, you do have money to pay for it.

People need to stop thinking that open source is free leech. Open source is about sharing knowledge and building trust between each other. But we are still living in a business world where we are competing.

It is important to decorelate compute and Storage.

I think people should be aware that the Core Storage work is not beeing done in the open anymore. The process of letting the open source core grow useless while selling proprietary addons is fine. I just have a problem with people calling this open source.

Some prefer using open source. Are they leeches ?

Regarding scaling open source projects, did Linux scale ?

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