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Congrats on the launch!

One question, there are many open source database startups that make it easy to scale on the cloud. However, when you look into the offering, the scaling part is never actually open source and you end up paying for non open source stuff just like any other proprietary database. So I guess my question is, are you planning to go open core too or will you remain open source with some SaaS offering? Good luck to you!

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QuestDB is open source and will remain so forever. You will be able to scale with it. Our commercial product, Pulsar, uses QuestDB as a library and will offer enterprise integration and monitoring features, which are typically required for massive enterprise deployment.

To answer your question, it will depend how big of a scale we are looking into. If you are a large company running questdb throughout the organization and need a specific feature set to do so, you will probably be looking to get our paid offering.

When I read Pulsar I think Apache Pulsar.

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