How We’re Building a Business to Last

Re:How We’re Building a Business to Last by mbesto on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:43AM (#13441923)

A majority of software companies can operate on RDS (and DynamoDB for that matter) and utilize their built-in scaling functions. CockroachDB adds no value to those customers, which will presumably make up the bulk of them hypothetically becoming a profitable company.

Contrast CockroachDB with some of the other nascent open-source-to-successful-businesses:

Influx - Solves timeseries applications challenges. (biz problem)

Citus - Solves a scale out technology problem with an already established DB platform. (tech problem)

Confluent - Solves scaling issues with an already established data streaming database. (tech problem)

Cloudera - Solves scaling issues with an already established big data platform. (tech problem)

Elastic - Solves search application challenges. (biz problem)

Cockroach - Solves scaling issues with SQL databases by offering an alternative DB. (??)

Unless Cockroach can position itself as either solving a technology challenge with an already adopted DB solution, or solves a business problem, it's going to be very difficult to achieve profitability.

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Re:How We’re Building a Business to Last by mbesto on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:48AM (#13441930)

I should add. One of the reason I thought that RethinkDB might actually survive was that (as far as I could tell) their database not only solve scaling issues, but also helped solve real-time push to mobile apps. I'm surprised they didn't position more to mobile app devs for adoption.

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Re:How We’re Building a Business to Last by pbarnes_1 on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:15PM (#13446226)

When I tested RethinkDB, it was an order of magnitude slower than Postgres. That didn't match the website marketing, so I just gave up.

Dunno what that anecdote adds, but... that was my experience.

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