InfluxDB 3 just went alpha, and they similarly have very severe limitations on what their open-core product will do, very strongly drive folks to upgrade to enterprise.<p><a href="https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb3-open-source-public-alpha/" rel="nofollow">https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb3-open-source-public...</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684524">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684524</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703113">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703113</a><p>While I admit that I don't think losing open source developers is actually that big a harm to many projects (there's just not enough people out there to drive by big valuable amazing features), I feel like the open core approach shuts yourself off from most people who are looking for open source solutions. The core is not enough.<p>No one's going to be happy running a 500x slower python project knowing there's the real deal running elsewhere, with a hip new runtime they can't get.<p>I recognize that for some of these companies, this probably is a necessary move. They need revenue to do what they do and it's hard to get revenue in open source. But these are both interesting products that I was hopeful for that I can't imagine adopting anymore. That's fine, I don't demand being served by anyone, but it is really sad to see, and I wonder how many awesome projects that would have grown big stop these technologies will never be created, because of these shifts.<p>Matrix especially feels like a brutal loss, because we are so short of good communication systems. I regret not seeing DataFusion & Arrow being out to use & integrate on with InfluxDB 3 but at least there's a lots of time-series databases available. Matrix's whole ecosystem has been slowly slowly slowly building momentum & acceptance, but there's so much less diversity & offerings, & that now Synapse Pro is needed if you want more than a simple instance.