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Re:How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational d... by sqlcook on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:39AM (#17521157)
EE features without support. I hate to bring up Mongo as example, but something similar...where support, additional software/plugins and cloud hosting are where the $ is made.

I did thorough testing of Memsql two years ago but went with Aurora instead. Would love to see how the product evolved since (Spark and Streaming integration was just being rolled out at the time), but something tells me pricing will be a deal breaker.

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Re:How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational d... by siscia on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:54AM (#17521202)
The point is that is not a convenient business model to just sell support, I can definitely understand why they are trying to sell features.
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Re:How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational d... by MarHoff on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:08AM (#17521260)
Thing is they are competing with PostgresSQL which you can extensively try for free before opting for a support.

"Free" being already hard to beat. The fact that you can't extensively test a solution is a real turn down for me (unless negotiating with commercials which is not nerds cup of tea).

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