DataStax invested millions of dollars into Cassandra, tens of thousands of man hours, hosted hundreds of events and has been a major factor in the success of the project.
ScyllaDB wants us to change the C* protocol in order to improve features in a competing database which contributes nothing back to the Cassandra community. Seems a little different to me. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:30 AM Eric Stevens <migh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let met just say that as an observer to this conversation -- and someone > who believes that compatibility, extensibility, and frankly competition > bring out the best in products -- I'm fairly surprised and disappointed > with the apparent hostility many community members have shown toward a > sincere attempt by another open source product to find common ground here. > > Yes, Scylla has a competing OSS project (albeit under a different > license). They also have a business built around it. It's hard for me to > see that as dramatically different than the DataStax relationship to this > community. Though I would love to be shown why. >
