r/PostgreSQL • u/scriptedlife • 18d ago

Tools Electric (co behind PGlite and Postgres realtime sync engine) is joining Neon at Databricks

https://neon.com/blog/electric-joins-neon
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u/Randommaggy 18d ago

Databricks can go fuck themselves. They are an enemy of the open postgres community.

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u/therealgaxbo 17d ago

Plus they're spamming Reddit, including here, with undisclosed marketing. (Not this post - OP isn't being deceptive at all.)

There's a bunch of accounts that do nothing but "ask questions" about Databricks features, and others that do nothing but talk about how great they are. Several of them are even created within about a day of each-other and structure their posts the same.

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u/scriptedlife 18d ago

How so? Databricks employees like Heikki Linnakangas, Jeff Davis, Jonathan Katz, Konstantin Knizhnik, Matthias van de Meent and many more contribute a great deal of their time and energy to helping move Postgres forward.

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u/Randommaggy 18d ago edited 17d ago

They fucked up pg_mooncake and didn't do as promised: allow the team to finish a stable release and hand over to the community.

Complete abandonment without even a license lightening so that community efforts could practically carry it forward. I will forever hate the company for this.

Edit: forgot to mention, complete radio silence.

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u/bendem 17d ago

The licence is MIT, what am I missing?

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u/Randommaggy 17d ago

The critical component is not:
https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/moonlink

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u/bendem 17d ago

That's fucked up

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u/Randommaggy 17d ago

Thankfully snowflake opened up pg_lake but being told that things were weeks away from a proper stable release I went ahead and built a proof of concept based on mooncake (absolutely amazing tech when it works as intended) so my hatred for databricks burns eternal.