[Hixon10]

It's a bit sad that many modern databases were recently acquired. They had the potential to bring a lot of innovations.

1. https://www.warpstream.com/

2. https://www.orioledb.com/

3. https://quickwit.io/

[oliverrice]

(disclaimer: supabase employee)

OrioleDB continues to be a fully open source and liberally licensed. We're working with the OrioleDB team to provide an initial distribution channel so they can focus on the storage engine vs hosting + providing lots of user feedback/bug reports. Our shared goal is to advance OrioleDB until it becomes the go-to storage engine for Postgres, both on Supabase and everywhere else.

Happy to hear any concerns you have

[chrisweekly]

Please forgive and help remedy my ignorance: it's a coherent goal to want OrioleDB to be the go-to storage engine for Postgres, on Supabase?

[philippemnoel]

Acquisitions don't necessarily mean the end of innovation. Sometimes, it allows them to take innovations they've worked hard on for years and expand the reach to a significantly larger audience :)

I have met the founders of all 3 of these companies and can assure you they all care tremendously about bringing their work to the world.

ParadeDB is independent and without plans to sell anytime soon, though :)

[hobs]

Not hating on Quickwit, but almost never does an acquisition in the modern era mean continual innovation, most companies are now suborned to a greater purpose, and its almost never going to drive them to build the best thing they already have ended their lifecycle - nobody is going to buy them from DD and their quality/dev process will dominate, and that is of a decent size corporation.

It also looks like most of DD's observability acquisitions are either integrated directly (seemingly with a full rewrite) or look a lot like aquihires for senior folks, so I wouldn't hold my breath here.