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Cassandra definitely isn’t dead, anyway. InfluxDB is a competitor to Timescale / TigerData, so that’s just a slam on them. I don’t think about MongoDB, other than of course the canonical video [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs

Also linking to an old HN comment to gloat about how wrong the doubters were is not a good look.

There's an element of immaturity in the style that they should probably work on.

I concur, the tone is very off-putting.

Yeah they might be good but the marketing is really bold and, to a certain extent, arrogant if not outright disgusting.

It sounds totally illogical comment, all those technologies mentioned have only been growing in the last few years and specialised databases are disrupting old school SQL ones.